Evan Davis Quotes

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• Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving…
• Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a…
• At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's…
• Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs,…
• I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there is lots I wouldn't want…
• It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter. It's a subtle distinction, but…
• But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I…
• For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face…
• For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise,…
• I've never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the 'Today' job. There is something about early sleep that's much better than late sleep. I…
• Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra…
• Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.
• It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations…
• Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does…
• My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers…
• Once we are fed, heated, housed and healthy, our extra consumption inevitably has an element of luxury about it. And once luxury enters the scene,…
• Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their…
• Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other.…
• We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a…
• We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world…

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