Quote by Martin Feldstein
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The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit. – Martin Feldstein

Other quotes by Martin Feldstein

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work. – Martin Feldstein

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Government
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And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets. – Martin Feldstein

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Science
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A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output. – Martin Feldstein

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Business
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finance
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We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building. – Sherrod Brown

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finance

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich. – Robin Leach

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finance

Theres enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level – everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success. – Jim Hightower

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finance

I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing Bridget Jones to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out. – Helen Fielding

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finance

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Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. – Robert Toombs

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Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss. – Allen Klein

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Humor

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley. – Anne Heche

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Marriage

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. – Mason Cooley

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