Famous Quotes & Sayings

The economy has remained remarkably robust as energy costs have soared since early 2004. Gasoline now accounts for only 3 percent of total personal consumption spending, down from 5 percent in 1981.

The economic fundamentals are a very supportive factor for the currency. The current account surplus and exports continue to perform well.

Samantha Power

The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

Robert C. Solomon

The dollar performs internationally all three functions of money, as a medium of exchange, a unit of account and a standard of value.

The dollar is drifting downwards. There is an inclination to sell dollars -- the current account deficit is the underlying concern. We need to see a big upward surprise in U.S. data to change the sentiment.

The e-Gold accounts may have been set up using a false ID.

The driving force is that you have a current account surplus supported by overseas worker remittances.

The formula that we used does not take into account any political factors. That has no value to us. Politics, district boundaries, who has a road tax and who does not - that was not part of the formula.

The current account numbers were pretty awful and put pressure on the sterling.

The current account deficit will probably show a gradual improvement this year as exports increase.

The current account deficit was very disappointing. What we hadn't factored in was the greater outflow due to overseas earnings in the UK.

The current account deficit shows that the dollar/won exchange-rate fall has meant deteriorating company profits, while savings have declined. The consumption recovery may soon be constrained by weak income growth.

The current account deficit is a ticking time bomb. We don't know when it s going to explode, but it cannot continue the way the White House describes.

The current account deficit is at a record level, as a percent of GDP (gross domestic product). We're now at 6.5 percent. That is a very large number that cannot be sustained,

The current account deficit has grown to a point where it arguably cannot be corrected by US action alone.

The current account argument has come back into the picture and today's data feeds into it.

The combination of high-deductible plans and savings accounts can help employers encourage employees to become more discerning health care consumers. Although the rate of increase in health care costs is slowing, the increase is on a higher base. Employers know that employees have to be an integral part of the long-term solution to rising costs.

This is more of a final nail in the coffin of the company's past accounting practices. Investors are looking at the company going forward rather than past. They have been doing a lot of things right lately.

This is all about diversifying portfolio risks and creating new liquidity in assets that have a low or negative correlation to conventional assets. While inevitably investment is traceable to physical supply and demand for the (metals), it is also about the supply and demand of financial products. It is an additional demand that analysts have to take into account in the pricing levels.

All in all, it was a good season for Boys' Town and I think we gave a good account of ourselves.

All managers carry a crisis binder, a checklist of what you need to do. The very first thing the company does is account for their customers and employees. Once that process was done, what we want you to know are the facts. We never speculate.

Kevin Hall

The House budget proposal reaches too deep into the checking account for core services ... to just deal with the general fund side and come back another day for transportation.

You can't fault government for seizing that opportunity. But it has an impact on Barbados' current account deficit and it does bring with it attended risks. And, therefore, you have to ask whether or not the tourism business that is going to be generated from the publicity around the cricket matches will be sustained after the cricket matches are over.

Michael Tanner

You can't use private accounts to make up the Social Security shortfall; the hole is just too deep.

We say we're in Vermont for another six years on account of St. Mary's.

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Lawrence Summers

U.S. budget and current account deficits are very important contributors to an unbalanced global economy, while the U.S. deficit has been a source of demand that has propelled the global economy forward for some years now.

You get a certain amount of respect when you start accounting for 1,000 transactions a month.

Robert Kiyosaki

The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.

Paul Graham

We don't have to go that far to sell our beer because our immediate accounts sell so much. Places that sold 10 cases before, now they're selling 30.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

You can see everything from your checking account and savings account ... to home equity loans, mortgages, credit cards. Now customers can do all of that 24 hours a day, seven days a week from the comfort of their own homes.

You can pretty much break our season down into two parts. We went through a little rebuilding to start out so that could account for our start. Now that we've gotten through that, we're playing our best hockey. We've been able to lengthen our bench and give more kids ice team. That's always good because it's insures our future.