Economics Quote by Barry Asmus Download Open image “Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions” — Barry Asmus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Economics Pessimism
The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are. — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it. — William Easterly Copy Share Image
It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Economists' unanimity that bad business is ahead is the most reassuring news possible. It's very unlikely that this will be the one time they're… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
How dare we be pessimistic? Maybe the future is better than it used to be. — Peter Schwartz Copy Share Image
Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
“there is no thought in the Bible that poor people would become permanent recipients of gifts of money, year after year, or would become… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“Today, more than half of the people in our world live on less than $2 each per day, and one billion people are mired… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said, “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property.” — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“The typical poverty program creates dependency, robs people of dignity, stifles initiative, and can foster a “What have you done for me lately?” sense… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“A free-market system is one in which economic production and consumption are determined by the free choices of individuals rather than governments, and this… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“...human beings glorify God by achieving much more than survival. We glorify Him by understanding and ruling over the creation and then producing more… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“some nations have tried to bring about more economic equality in economically harmful ways, not through opening up free markets but through brute use… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“No other economic system has brought any country from poverty to prosperity. A free-market system is the only type that offers a workable alternative… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“The results have been devastating. Today, more than half of the people in our world live on less than $2 each per day, and… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“Entrepreneurs continually demonstrate that faith and imagination are the most important capital goods in a changing economy, and that wealth is a product less… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“poor. They argue that greater economic equality is a matter of simple justice that governments should enforce. We certainly agree with the goal of… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
“Frederick Catherwood rightly says "The teaching ofthe bible would appear to be that it is not the amount of a man's wealth which matters.… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned… — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
“The free-market economy and globalisation process have brought about, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, a sharp and sudden rise in the… — Yaakov Malkin Copy Share Image
“Everything economic science posits as given, that is, the range of dispositions of the economic agent which ground the illusion of the ahistorical universality… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
“a select group of high-performing companies have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap through better planning and execution. These companies—Barclays, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical,… — Michael C. Mankins Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
