Economic Indicators Quotes

Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.

Earnings don't move the overall market; it's the Federal Reserve Board... focus on the central banks, and focus on the movement of liquidity... most people in the market are looking for earnings and conventional measures. It's liquidity that moves markets.

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that underlies an investment decision is intended to make money and not to establish a universally valid generalization.

China needs a currency that reflects underlying economic fundamentals.

Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory.

If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either be by increasing domestic demand or by weakening its own currency.

Like other presidents before him, Barack Obama inherited a recession. But unlike them, he has made it worse, not better.

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

The kingdom of Bhutan replaced standard economic measures with measures of happiness as long ago as 1972. Yet Bhutan’s G.D.P. per head is still one of the lowest in the world, life expectancy is relatively low and infant mortality high, so it is easy to see why the king would not want anyone to mention the economy.

The best time to make deficit reduction a priority is when the inflation rate and the bond market give you some indication that you are headed for a dangerous inflationary spiral.

It's the economy, stupid.

He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.

More money is lost anticipating the changes in the overall stock market than any other way of investing.

Bilateral trade deficits are not evil; historically, better growth in the U.S. economy has led to larger trade deficits.

In economics, it is easier to agree on the data than to agree on causality.

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

Warren spends 70 hours a week thinking about investing .

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.

I think you can directly link chihuahuas to Dow Jones.

We are calling ourselves a startup nation, but the number of people who set out on their own is very low; even 10,000 a year would be low in a country like India. We can say we are a startup nation but the world won't say it.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

"What's the latest dope on Wall Street?" "My son!"

An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.