Quotes about "Contemporary Issues"

I would say that my whole career is effectively trying to be a storyteller within the context of financial news. ”

As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren't supposed to say. And in many ways, that's what my job is today; it's getting people to tell me things that they probably are otherwise not supposed to say. ”

The greatest economic power might in fact remain in the hands of the Federal Reserve. Economists credit the Fed's policy of keeping interest rates at historic lows with helping to pump up the economy and bring unemployment down. ”

The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds. ”

Whether a president can truly improve, or damage, an economy remains an open question. ”

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could. ”

The Saft America plant, a giant 235,000-square-foot mass of concrete, is a modern marvel: its roof covered in row upon row of solar panels, embodying the renewable future that the batteries manufactured within are meant to sustain. ”

The 24/7 nature of online debate, on the web and across social media, has allowed for more vibrant discussion of the opinions we publish - and your own. ”

I have sometimes thought the power of computers had exceeded our ability to use them, but Mr. Jobs and his team kept giving us devices that made indispensable things easier in ways you never thought of. ”

One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action. ”