For that to happen, growth has to be very strong. To get back to normalcy, we will have to have extended growth of more than 3 percent. That's not in the cards.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.

Love is the best religion

If your options are closing-in around you and you feel panicked, scared and helpless, this is the time for action.

I have a company attitude about my work. I don't like to do just one thing I like to do a lot of things.

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

Put your hands up and cheer for yourselves! You are strong, you are brave, you are confident, and I f*ing love you, Israel.

I'm habitually positive. I try not to use anger as motivation.

The Christian life is a pilgrimage from earth to heaven, and our task is to take as many as possible with us as we make this journey.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.