Top 1200 Great Recession Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own autonomous course, but the government, when there's a recession, compensates by employment, by expansion of purchasing power, and in boom times corrects by being a restraining force. But it controls the great flow of demand into the economy, what since Keynesian times has been the flow of aggregate demand. That was the basic idea of Keynes so far as one can put it in a couple of sentences.

A temporary reduction in tax rates on individual incomes can be a powerful weapon against recession.

The great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to give you. And that, combined with the American spirit, I think, is going to help us come out of the recession faster than other countries. And I think it's going to help Africa come out of, you know, a century of slump.

There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anemic.

People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

Going into 2010, we didn't expect the consumer pullback that happened. We all thought that the theory that concerts are recession-proof was true.

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

In China anything less than 6% growth is a recession meaning that it also causes financial problems and it's disruptive and it's a problem.

We have been dealt a very weak hand by the financial market meltdown, bailouts, and recession. We can't act like it's a strong one.

With the recession, people are having to choose between their cable and their internet connection. And think about it.

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

If you talk to people about the history of the games business during economic downturns, they'll tell you that it's a recession-proof industry.

Recession always encourages entrepreneurialism and innovation. It does that every time because when people have no options they look at other things.

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

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

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.

In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.

In the recession people are going to be looking even more at what movie stars are wearing, as it provides a fantasy outlet.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among white men in middle age. Higher than among any other demographic, etc. Mostly death by drugs, alcohol, or suicide. Many of them rural. My feeling is that it's many people who haven't been able to get back into the work force. Reg Morse is an example of the problem.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats cant grasp this simple fact.

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial 'boom' followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.

Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.

They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.

Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.

I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.

If Mr. Trump gets precisely the policies he says he wants, then the economy will suffer a recession.

Donald Trump would send us back into recession with his tax plans that benefit the wealthiest of Americans.

Anytime there's a disruption in the supply chain, any time people cut back on spending, there will be a recession.

Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

As our nation continues to slowly recover from the recession, it is clear some families are doing better than others.

How is it having more control if we have a recession as the Bank of England and IFS say?

I wouldn't like Greece to stay recession. I do think that everything has to be undertaken to reconnect with growth.

We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.

The trouble is that the average trader on Wall Street, he or she is so young, he doesn't even remember the recession of 2001, let alone the previous one.

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough.

The United States came into the coronavirus recession with a few structural advantages, including a highly diversified economy.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Faced with a deep recession, some say the answer is to expand the role of government.

Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.

We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China.

When the economy collapsed, our construction company was in Calgary, but the U.S. was further along in the recession, so I made the move down to Vegas.