Politics Quote by Christopher Westley

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful.

— Paul Krugman

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.

— Fareed Zakaria

The centerpiece of Obamanomics - raising taxes on high earners and investors and lowering them on the middle class - is attacked by free-marketers…

— Nina Easton

More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade.

— David Autor

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we…

— Angela Merkel

What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy…

— Ha-Joon Chang

“The markets in the long run are no doubt driven by fundamental economic laws—if the United States runs a persistent trade deficit, the dollar…

— Michael Lewis

The constant drive for campaign dollars has distorted decision-making in Washington, DC, to the point where our systems can no longer effectively address complex,…

— Al Gore

It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the self-regulating forces of the market will somehow…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

— Mark Zandi

Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets, and then…

— Duncan Green

In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that went nowhere,…

— Glenn Hubbard