Quotes about Stimulus

Disasters, whether natural or man-made, are forms of economic stimulus. Most of the replacement comes out of insurance-instead of out of normal cash flows. That's the reason that any disaster gives you a silver lining of economic recovery.

Kevin Landis

The five percent drop is shocking. It indicates that perhaps the consumer tax rebate stimulus that benefited retailers during the back-to-school season has petered out.

Delos Smith

On net, we'll see some damage and a hit to corporate profits and proprietors' income, but that effect is temporary. But in the next quarter, we will get some mild stimulus from the rebuilding. Certainly, it will have no major, permanent effect on the economy.

Joseph Abate

Estimates of the extent of spending are escalating, and the recovery and bounce-back, fueled by massive fiscal stimulus, could propel the U.S. economy on an unsustainable upward trajectory.

Janet Yellen

Change the exercise and you get a whole different stimulus. If you don't change what you do, your body doesn't have to adapt and you don't get better.

Neal Pire

In the past two years, we've seen the budget go from surplus to deficit, adding about $400 billion of stimulus to the economy, but we've still lost 2.5 million private-sector jobs.

Lacy Hunt

One reason for such confidence is our country has the biggest stimulus and lowest interest rates we have had for a very long time.

Anthony Santomero

We are very confident about the long-term outlook for our business, but believe that the immediate impact will be a further weakening in the operating environment and a delay in the economic recovery, ... However, given increased fiscal and monetary stimulus, we anticipate that long-term economic recovery should be more certain and vigorous than previously expected.

Henry Paulson

I think the chance of a double-dip recession is remote. We have a lot of stimulus in the pipeline from past [Fed rate] decisions, and it takes a year for policy to work through the economy.

Glenn Hubbard

All of a sudden there's a big stimulus to the economy - interest rates are down, money supply has grown and oil prices are lower, ... From a macro perspective, the evidence states that the economy will recover, perhaps as early as the first quarter of next year.

Bob Turner

If there is no stimulus of mechanical action on the bone, the surrounding bone will gradually disappear. An implant will also keep teeth from shifting and the bite from collapsing. And, the implant does not rely on adjacent teeth for support.

Dr. Peter Laliberte

Continuing consolidation largely depends on whether or not tax relief announced in February provides new stimulus to this consolidating curve.

Rashika Lalla

Until the housing bubble finally pops, builders and realtors will earn healthy incomes from current or even somewhat-lower housing activity levels, ... However, actual stimulus from housing to U.S. economic growth is about spent.

Michael Bazdarich

There's already a lot of stimulus in the pipeline, and there's more to come. So there appears to be an ever-growing amount of fiscal stimulus, which means any recession will be fairly shallow.

Wayne Ayers

The data point to the dilemma facing the Bank of Canada. Rising economy-wide labor cost pressures are likely to push core inflation above the 2 percent target in the second half of 2006, implying a need for further reduction in monetary stimulus.

Ted Carmichael

From the top of our heads to the bottom of our toes, physical activity is the stimulus that gets almost all our organs working at their best.

Miriam Nelson

I don't know what the overall stimulus was.

Cathy Cook

Last year, I proposed to use the additional resources to fund an economic stimulus project, which included the reconstruction of 56th Street south to Watkins Avenue.

Mayor Jerre Van Hoose

The Fed still thinks short-term interest rates are low enough to be pushing the economy so they are continuing to remove monetary stimulus at a pace that is likely to be measured.

Robert Walters

Continued job and real wage growth is needed to increase a household's pool of cash and to strengthen discount retailers' sales, ... An improved labor market would make consumer spending more self-reinforcing and less dependent on tax and interest rate-related stimulus.

Carl Steidtmann

I think the Fed will take it very slowly from here on in. The Fed is cognizant of the fact that we are going to get massive fiscal stimulus in the next couple of months.

Robert Goodman

[Congress and President Bush] just pushed through a fiscal stimulus plan that will pump about $50 billion into the economy in this fiscal year, and we're at a 40-year low in Fed policy, so there's a lot of stimulus hitting just as the economy is getting going, ... There's no indication of sluggishness here.

Tim Rogers

Throughout the curriculum, the lessons had the same structure: learning presented as stimulus and response; training children to parrot phrases they do not understand; offering rote responses to horrific events.

Susan Ohanian

I hadn't expected much to happen on this front. It is positive for the housing market and it will be mild stimulus for house price growth.

John Loos

It requires a lot of economic stimulus to increase the amount of revenue but also to have external aid allocated in a way which allows growth from both sides - one trying to bring in foreign income, the other saying the vast majority of the population are rural, so let's try and lift them up.

Ameerah Haq

Without BDNF in the circuit, an animal can't learn that a social stimulus is threatening and respond appropriately.

Eric Nestler

No other state in the nation stands to derive as much of an economic stimulus from the opening of the Asian beef market as Nebraska. However, economic gains are going to be slow going as food-processing firms attempt to re-establish a beef presence in these foreign markets.

Ernie Goss