Economist Quotes

(The Economist wrote,) Then there is Lewis and Clark, always a trump card in Montana. ... `almost a slap in the face` for this year`s bicentennial celebration.

I think it will have some effect, ... It depends on which economist you read as to how much.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

Well, I started out in the Federal Reserve as a young economist and spent about five years in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps` use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.

I don`t imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I`m not an economist therefore I can`t take decisions on matters of the economy; I`m not a soldier I can`t take decisions on matters of defence; I`m not an educationist so I can`t take decisions about education.

(Economist Robert Walters of Quicken Loans in Livonia, Mich., agreed.) The Fed is sticking to its guns, ... They took pains to address the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, but they also made it clear that they see it as a short-term event from the economic perspective.

An economist`s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else`s.

With various people complaining about "price gouging'�... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" '” not even when they bulldoze people`s homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn`t happen today.