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Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond to them as they do spending cuts, with little contraction in economic activity.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Activity Credits Cuts Economic Economic Activity Expenditures Fiscal Implemented Increases Little Markets Much Other Policy Respond Should So-Called Spending Tax Them Through

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What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage, and that means economic activity, which is really dealing with people, just goes straight down.

~Alan Greenspan

Topics: Activity Back Beings Confront Confronted Dealing Does Down Economic Economic Activity Elements Goes Human Human Beings Just Means Money One Thing People Pull Really Sound Stabilize Straight System The One Thing Thing Uncertainty Which Withdraw

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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

~Barry Commoner

Topics: Activity Drastically Economic Economic Activity Entering Environment Environmental Expedient Gasoline Grew Improved Lead Quality Removing Simple Which While

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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Activity Any Community Downtown Economic Economic Activity Everybody Find Grew Hardly Iowa Malls Now Sense Shops Up Where You

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Greece's unprecedented fiscal effort, which was more than planned, has triggered much larger contractions of economic activity and the tax base than the original program had assumed.

~Charles Dallara

Topics: Activity Assumed Base Economic Economic Activity Effort Fiscal Greece Had Larger More Much Original Planned Program Tax Than Unprecedented Which

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The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.

~Douglas Tompkins

Topics: Acceleration Activity Computer Consuming Days Does Eating Economic Economic Activity Just Manufacturing Mechanism Narrow Needs Non-Stop Our Own Processing Real Real Work Resources Satisfy Up Work World Year 365 Days

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Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.

~Eugene Fama

Topics: About Activity Caused Day Debates Depression Economic Economic Activity Economics Explaining Go Good Great Great Depression Swings Very

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I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

~Gale Norton

Topics: Activity Economic Economic Activity Environment Needs Protect Recognize Search Think Today Ways I Think

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