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The Dong!- the Dong! / The wandering Dong through the forest goes! / The Dong!- the Dong! / The Dong...
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DONG TAO We think that almost all central banks in the region are likely to take a breather from the rate hik...
DONG TAO The austerity program ... slowed bank loans and undermined the cash flows of weak developers. Howeve...
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DONG TAO The month-on-month numbers are just totally useless unless the seasonal factor has been applied.
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DONG TAO I don't think the world can tolerate such a massive surplus.
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JOE DUNTHORNE Ding, dong, the witch is dead.
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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CHRIS HART I work with the macro economy, which involves the major variables that measure the health of the who...
CLIVE GRANGER There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish glo...
LOU JIWEI Investment in China is actually accelerating.
CHEN XINGDONG
The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private invest... TIMOTHY GEITHNER It does appear that after a very long period of stagnant growth, the Japanese economy is beginning t...
TIM ADAMS The immediate driver is that investment activity is picking up. The global economy remains very robu...
KLAUS BAADER High energy prices act like a consumption tax and consumption taxes eventually hurt the economy.
LARRY GOLDSTEIN
The Dong!- the Dong! / The wandering Dong through the forest goes! / The Dong!- the Dong! / The Dong... EDWARD LEAR
They're very good numbers ... most of the growth of the economy over the coming year will come from ... JOHN EDWARDS
China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak ... JACK MA Investment has been very strong and consumption remains very strong.
JOSEPH RAMOS We're aiming to be the leading investment platform for the clean-energy economy.
BILLY PARISH This is a landmark move for China, to partially open the door in its capital account. The significan...
DONG TAO We think that almost all central banks in the region are likely to take a breather from the rate hik...
DONG TAO The austerity program ... slowed bank loans and undermined the cash flows of weak developers. Howeve...
DONG TAO I do not believe that 0.9 percent is sustainable, especially given the price liberalization in areas...
DONG TAO The month-on-month numbers are just totally useless unless the seasonal factor has been applied.
DONG TAO The biggest beneficiary of all this is the United States. Look, a Barbie doll costs $20 but China on...
DONG TAO These are unprecedented surplus volumes, reflecting the structural changes of China becoming the fac...
DONG TAO I don't think the world can tolerate such a massive surplus.
DONG TAO Will the government really hit the brakes? I doubt it. Much of the investment is following governmen...
DONG TAO This is a day for celebration. But tomorrow when Hong Kong wakes up, it will still face structural c...
DONG TAO This is economic revision makes the figure closer (to actual GDP), but still there is underestimatio...
DONG TAO
Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse ... JEFFREY R. IMMELT I think it's symptomatic of how weak this economy really is. This tells us the slowdown is accelerat...
BOB MCINTOSH What Canada needs is a shift in focus away from consumption and towards savings and investment,
DON DRUMMOND Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy.
JOHN BALDACCI The funny thing is, I was never purposely blonde. I just got highlights, and then you get highlights...
CHERI OTERI The Chinese economy has started to slow due to excess capacity. The rapid investment-led boom of the...
ANDY XIE
Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market ... ALEX BERENSON
The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy. BARRY RITHOLTZ When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
TATE DONOVAN While household balance sheets remain precarious, corporate balance sheets are much improved over se...
BRUCE BITTLES We believe (the government) should ... shift spending from more investment-oriented to consumption-o...
BERT HOFMAN
Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go ... CARLOS SLIM
The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by over... VINCE CABLE A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumpt...
ADAM DAVIDSON The good news is that the current energy prices are underestimated and utility charges such as water...
LI MINGLIANG Of all the economic statistics, the labor market best highlights the underlying strength of the Aust...
JOSEPH CAPURSO China to reduce capital lending in the domestic market. Aiming to create structural changes to prese...
ZENG HAN JUN
That Was Zen; This Is Tao SHUNRYU SUZUKI
That Was Zen; This Is Tao ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, ... BARACK OBAMA
weird and wonderful highlights of the week gone by. CHRIS EVANS We're already having concerns by major employers that their workforce is disappearing. The faster we...
BILL CRAWFORD Shi Tao is being unjustly punished by a government that routinely jails journalists.
ANN COOPER Growth was slightly better than we had expected, chiefly due to resilient domestic demand such as co...
ATSUSHI TAKEDA This was driven by 'the usual suspects' - accelerating fixed to mobile substitution and declining yi...
TONY WILSON It is time to re-imagine how life is organized on Earth. We’re accelerating into a future shaped l...
PARAG KHANNA I think this will be more of a company-led expansion instead of one led by consumers.
LINCOLN ANDERSON The acceleration of loan growth will add further fuel to the current growth momentum and we see upsi...
HONG LIANG Business investment is disappointingly sluggish and the long-term effects on the U.K. economy are re...
JOHN CRIDLAND If we see uncertainty easing, we expect investment to come back. It would be a boost to the economy.
IRENE CHEUNG The expansion in mining has to have an impact on the wider Australian economy -- it's creating jobs ...
LEO KIPFSTUHL A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wa...
CHRISTIAN SIRIANO
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce i... BRAD HENRY The labor market situation won't dramatically improve and oil prices are still a problem. Relatively...
JUERGEN MICHELS
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!
Tom Bom...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The data has given investors the impression that both wheels of Japanese business activity - consump...
HIDEYUKI SUZUKI
Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of... HOLLIS STACY
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. LAO TZU Lower annual pay and lower pay growth can flow through the economy, because it also means lower cons...
BEADSIE WOO
Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, i... JACK KEMP For North Asia, Korea is the prime candidate to see consumption-led demand in 2006, given the turnar...
IRENE CHEUNG
When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attac... ZHUANGZI I was led by God to do this.
DAVE JAMES
A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long... JEREMY CORBYN Europe's acceleration is confirmed and will continue in the second quarter. The extra froth is not j...
JANWILLEM ACKET The Peruvian economy, in macroeconomic terms, has performed very well in past years. It's been one o...
PETER DESHAZO
If, before 2020, there is a choice between further spending cuts, more borrowing and tax rises, the ... THERESA MAY One more word that may be useful in the heat of passion: dong. Dong sounds like someone very importa...
JOE DUNTHORNE Ding, dong, the witch is dead.
BILL DAVOREN Chandler: Ding dong, the psycho's gone.
FRIENDS Falling investment and poor productivity threaten Britain's long-term economic growth and competitiv...
GEORGE OSBORNE
Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on savin... JACK KEMP
The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978. TED CRUZ Investors are now accelerating buying of domestic demand-linked shares such as property developers a...
HARUKI TAKAHASHI There is no question that the ability to tap equity has supported consumption. It is a very, very po...
DOUG DUNCAN
U.S. economic activity continues to expand, led by solid growth in household spending. But business ... JANET YELLEN This reinforces the role of business investment and exports as underpinning the recovering economy. ...
SCOTT HASLEM This program will do more to promote the state's education and economy than any other investment. St...
DON OWENS In the economy we are in now, there will not be the same investment in technology, but we are demand...
CUSHING ANDERSON Foreign direct investment is so important to the growth of China's economy that the national governm...
CLIVE JONES With strong investment growth and an expected improvement in exports, our forecast for the economy o...
IAN MACFARLANE
The universe really is accelerating. By using Chandra to study galaxy clusters, we have obtained str... STEVE ALLEN You can see this clear, ongoing deterioration. And what's scary about this is it's still acceleratin...
CHRISTOPHER LOW
Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead. E. Y. HARBURG China's overall crude oil consumption is about 8% or 9% of world consumption and per capita consumpt...
ZHENG JINGPING For 2006, I see very strong German exports and increasing investment, but I don't think it will have...
JUERGEN MICHELS Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to...
TOM VILSACK Hopefully this highlights the need and desire to conserve whale species in general.
PAUL JEPSON
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumptio... RAOUL VANEIGEM
There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil ... EVANGELINE LILLY
Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothin... MICHIO KAKU He sees investment in education as being directly linked to the future of Oregon's economy.
CAMERON JOHNSON
A tiny dark object came sailing out of the window and landed at the giant's feet. Polybotes yelled, ... RICK RIORDAN
Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch ... WAYNE DYER
The strong evidence is that we're running out of space. We're collectively affecting the wor... JOHN SULSTON
There's no longer any serious doubt that climate change is real, accelerating, and caused by human a... BILL CLINTON
When you are lacking in faith, Others will be unfaithful to you. 
Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded. 
It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act also. 