Austerity Quote by Alex Himelfarb

One of the things that happens when you have austerity is that wages get lower, and some people think lower wages in the short…

— Joseph Stiglitz

What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP.…

— Gerald Celente

'Austerity' is a real weasel word because it's an attempt to make something value-based and abstract out of something which, in reality, consists simply…

— John Lanchester

Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.

— Owen Jones

Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts.

— Nicola Sturgeon

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

If Australia finds it has a strong Australian dollar, and it has higher unemployment, then it would have to respond, and that would either…

— Ben Bernanke

Increases in interest rates normally worsen inequality, at least partly by reducing employment and wage growth.

— Gerald Epstein

“Thus, increases in interest rates matter greatly for the economy as a whole. They not only cause direct reductions in investment spending and interest-sensitive…

— McConnell Campbell

In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the next couple…

— Joe Hockey

Mainstream economic theories popular in the last several decades have tended to downplay the government's role in markets and to increase skepticism about even…

— Mariana Mazzucato

In difficult economic times, I'm firmly opposed to austerity.

— Jagmeet Singh