Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas…

The emphasis so far on fiscal austerity, while to a degree necessary for the countries facing market funding difficulties, is excessive when carried out…

— Charles Dallara

Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.

— Arne Duncan

The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way…

— Bill Gross

[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover that what…

— Paul Krugman

The more we can do to address fiscal austerity, the better our markets will do, and there is a real political shift to doing…

— Meredith Whitney

Investing in more fossil fuel infrastructure will not strengthen our economy over the long-term, since the market is clearly indicating that clean energy sources…

— Tom Steyer

“Krugman himself acknowledges, “[T]he growth of the U.S. economy during the Long Gilded Age benefited all classes: Most Americans were much better off in…

— Don Watkins

A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills…

— Jeremy Corbyn

An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income…

— John Hospers

It does the American economy no long-term good to only keep the big box factories where we are now assembling 'American' products that are…

— Peter Navarro

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy…

— Michelle Rhee

My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

— Anonymous

Outsourcing American jobs will prove to be a plus for the economy in the long run. It's simply a new way of doing international…

— Greg Mankiw

Illinois needs a real strategy for job creation that grows the economy over the long term with high-wage jobs that rebuild the middle class.

— William M. Daley

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to…

— Bertrand Russell