Austerity Quote by John Maynard Keynes Download Open image “The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.” — John Maynard Keynes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austerity Austerity Treasury Boom Slump Investing Right time Slumps Time Time Austerity Treasury
“Boom/bust cycles are not inevitable and would not occur were it not for the inflationary monetary policies that always precede recessions.” — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history. — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Even when [Federal Reserve Chairman Ben] Bernanke said the recession was over ... you think that would have been a bigger boom somewhere, but… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
True, governments can reduce the rate of interest in the short run. They can issue additional paper money. They can open the way to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
We have the worst revival of an economy since the Great Depression. And believe me: We're in a bubble right now. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery. — Alistair Darling Copy Share Image
No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It was my good fortune to be linked with Mme. Curie through twenty years of sublime and unclouded friendship. I came to admire her… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field, and a… — Paul Alkazraji Copy Share Image
Too many politicians seem to reach for 'infrastructure' as the default answer to investment, as if roads and bridges were the answer to everything.… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that "real wealth." It exposes what's wrong in the mainstream economics… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything,… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
We used to be one of the richest countries in the world, but we are now on a path towards under-development. This austerity that… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
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