Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest growth over the last 12 months we've seen in 20 years.
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You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.
Individual income can grow only as fast as productivity rises.
When you are growing at a rapid rate, there is bound to be some inflation. I think a 5% rate of inflation is something that we should take in our stride.
The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.
I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.
Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.
It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.
Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation.
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
You don't grow the economy by growing government.