Economic Trend Quotes

Money often moves around like a high school kid with no personality - it goes with the crowd.

There has always been, and there always will be, an economic cycle.

When American workers are losing their jobs to people in other countries, Washington cannot afford to ignore this disturbing trend any longer. While Democratic presidential candidates want to just blame U.S. corporations, the reality is that their strategy won't help protect American workers or save their jobs.

If we look at the past two centuries of economic history in Europe and the United States, we see an astounding pattern. Capital will accumulate in a tiny portion of the population, no matter what we do.

One of my favorite indicators of the near-term trend for the economy is auto sales, since folks tend to buy a car when they are feeling optimistic about their financial circumstances.

So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's something we certainly need to keep an eye on.

The history of the twentieth century - America's century! - has been pretty much a history of rising prices.

The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.

We’re in the midst of a boom in home-based businesses, and it shows no sign of slowing.

We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year.

Municipal debt outstanding doubled in the past 10 years. And in the past 30 years, the U.S. has been in real economic nirvana.

There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.

Historically, there has been a bull market in commodities every 20 or 30 years.

You can't buck the market.

Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.

The strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.

Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession.

Under Obama, income growth has been confined almost entirely to those at the top of the income distribution, continuing a pattern that began under President George W. Bush.

Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The two elements interact with each other in a reflexive manner.

When you look at the Democratic presidencies you see resurgence in the economy.

When you argue for free markets, you are arguing against the trend.

One of the most striking trends, since at least the 1960's, has been for employment in services to grow far more rapidly than employment in manufacturing. It is this trend that has led to the view that developed economies have become de-industrialized and that they are now effectively service economies.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.