Economic Outlook Quotes

Economics never was a dismal science. It should be a realistic science.

The Canadian debt-to-GDP ratio will continue to decrease every year, including the first three years under the Liberal government. That is what we're focused on. We know we need to invest in the kind of long-term growth and short-term job creation that Canadians expect, and Liberals the only party offering to do that.

Interest is the barometer of the state.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

Trade is the key to the economic outlook in Britain and the E.U. Many corporate chieftains joined large bank CEOs and the fearmongering IMF to suggest that the E.U. will deal harshly with Britain if it leaves and stop all trade. That's mutually assured destruction - MAD.

I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.

Our discussions of the economy may sometimes ring in the ears of the public with more certainty than is appropriate.

Look, 85% percent of Democrats think the economy's fine. What does that tell you about these people?

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

The global economy is in pretty good shape.

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

The outlook for the Federal budget is bleak.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

If expectations of lifetime earnings drop, then so will spending.

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.

Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.

Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

[T]he economy remains the top issue for the electorate.

China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that's only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that's not going to happen.

I bought my first stock in 1942, in the summer of '42. I was 11 years old. And so 75 years have gone by. And I have never known what the market's going to do the next day. And that's not my game. My game is to decide whether I'm in the right economy, which America's definitely been ever since that time. The Dow has gone from 100 to 21,000 during that time. And no matter what the headlines say, or terrible things are happening - we were losing the war in the Pacific when I first bought stocks.

It's important for market participants to have a sense of how we think about the economy and the appropriate path of policy, to look at incoming data, and to form their own judgments as to whether or not changes in policy would be appropriate.

Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.

Americans reading the paper, listening to the news every single day, and all you hear is things are getting worse and worse. And that has a psychological effect on consumer confidence. That's what consumer confidence is.

No one can forecast the economy with certainty.