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Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine. Harry Markowitz

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The subsidy for employer-sponsored coverage has tethered health care to employment in a way that virtually no economist endorses. J. D. Vance

Health Care Virtually Way Economist Employment Health Care Coverage Subsidy

My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot. Jennifer Gilmore

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist. Jerry Yang

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Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives? Jim Cooper

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I'm not an economist, but I have spent time around thousands of small-business owners and investors, and I remain skeptical - despite the best intentions of the Fed - that even lower interest rates can make a meaningful dent in our unemployment problem. John Delaney

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Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist. Joseph Stiglitz

Broad Development Economist MIT Intellectual Intellectual Development Pivotal Professional Amherst

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that. Larry Page

In the 40 years I've been working as an economist and investor, I have never seen such a disconnect between the asset market and the economic reality... Asset markets are in the sky, and the economy of the ordinary people is in the dumps, where their real incomes adjusted for inflation are going down and asset markets are going up. Marc Faber

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I'm an economist. I'm not a political servant. Marc Faber

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I'm no economist. I don't even play one on TV. I'm just a husband, a father, a taxpayer. Mark McKinnon

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In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question. Mark Zandi

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I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.' Mos Def

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I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation. Muhammad Yunus

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. Nassau William Senior

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions - prime ministers, presidents and chief executives - and so I'm all too aware of the risks and dangers of poor choices in the public as well as the private sphere. Noreena Hertz

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Before I leave for the office in the morning, I read the 'Financial Times' and the 'Economist.' The key articles I need to understand are there, after which I focus on prep for the day. Rajeev Suri

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I don't like the Sunday newspapers - I read them because I have to. 'Sunday Times,' 'Telegraph,' 'Independent' on Sunday - I find them heavy and too much! I prefer 'The Economist.' Richard Quest

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It is true that I am one of the co-authors of 'Nudge,' and I am a behavioral economist, but it does not mean that everything we write about in that book is behavioral economics, nor does it mean that my co-author, the distinguished legal scholar Cass Sunstein, is a behavioral economist. Richard Thaler

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Shopping for an annuity with hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake can be daunting, even for an economist. Richard Thaler

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I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good. Rupert Murdoch

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