Economic Mistake Quotes

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.

It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.

One economic blunder invariably brings in its train a series of blunders, each one more fruitful of disaster than the first.

I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.

The Euro was a terrible mistake, one that is very difficult to unmake.

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.

There are many excuses for the person who made the mistake of confounding money and wealth. Like many others they mistook the sign for the thing signified.

… the most disastrous and the most false of fiscal inventions.