Quotes About Economic Instability

#1. The process by which wants are now synthesized is a potential source of economic instability. Production and therewith employment and social security are dependent on an inherently unstable process of consumer debt creation. This may one day falter.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#2. How often do police accidentally shoot and kill bankers who are committing financial crimes, stealing homes, and plunging the nation into economic instability and recession?

Ralph Nader

#3. [Depression is] like combating the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse with a handful of popcorn. But that handful of popcorn keeps you going. There is no sense in going on, there is no sense in any of those things, but thank God one does not live by reason alone.

James Tiptree Jr.

#4. We have too many of the wrong things in common to be more than sex, and the realization is freedom to me.

Lisa Renee Jones

#5. If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social.

William Weld

#6. Wowie zowie, love me do. Wowie zowie, and I'll love you, too.

Frank Zappa

#7. I see you as series of gestures, a palette of colors -all these tiny tiles pixelate, and then coalesce ... into the idea of you ...

John Geddes

#8. Let us be frank: provoking military-political instability and other regional conflicts is also a convenient way of deflecting people's attention from mounting social and economic problems. Regrettably, further attempts of this kind cannot be ruled out.

Vladimir Putin

#9. The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political and economic.

H.J. Haskell

#10. Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

Victor Ponta

#11. Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.

Vida Dutton Scudder

#12. Unless we understand what it is that leads to economic and financial instability, we cannot prescribe
make policy
to modify or eliminate it. Identifying a phenomenon is not enough; we need a theory that makes instability a normal result in our economy and gives us handles to control it.

Hyman Minsky

#13. In his experience, motives were simple. There was greed, there was jealousy, he'd seen plenty of revenge played out in gang-related crimes, there was even sadism, and sometimes there was flat-out stupidity, which was a pretty powerful motivator in itself.

Jonathan L. Howard

#14. The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

Julia Gillard

#15. It's difficult to not be able to just be yourself without criticism in any position, whether you're in high school, college, or this industry.

Raven-Symone