I don't think that the financial services industry and that banking in particular are any different than any other part of the economy, any other industry outside banking.
Manufacturing still has the greatest multiplier effect, in terms of job creation, of any sector of the economy.
The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power.
Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
Advertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically
With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.
Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.
People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.
In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.
Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.
Trade wars in which countries are then obliged to retaliate by raising their own tariffs against the initiator undermine growth and hurt consumers. Far from being expressions of strength they highlight the failure of the initiating country's economic sector to compete in the global market place.
There can be no doubt that the transportation sector is the most critical sector of our economy.
Real estate is one sector that India is not very proud of.
Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting.
New Zealand's food and beverage industry is the lynchpin of the country's prosperity. Which may explain why it has concentrated their governments' minds.
The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in the entire economy [the oil industry], that they are being watched.
Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.
