Happens Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

“Austerity, especially when it cannot be offset by a significant lowering of interest rates, brings with it increases in unemployment -- particularly enduring unemployment…

— Alex Himelfarb

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

— Owen Jones

'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

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

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

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

— Nicola Sturgeon

We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China. China's been doing relatively well. So…

— Richard Glover

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 hasn't just decimated our public services. It has corroded the political imagination.

— Ash Sarkar

Even in London, at the centre of the wealthiest region in northern Europe, in so many ways insulated from the financial realities faced by…

— David Olusoga

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

— Arnaud Montebourg

If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is…

— Paul Keating