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Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.
Martha Mcsally / United States Representative
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Ideas
Raising Taxes
Taxes
Good Idea
Raising
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When you're in a major market downturn, the beta eats the alpha.
Jeffrey Gundlach / Manager
Alphas
Beta
Downturn
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We invested in the downturn and we never stopped serving our clients.
Jamie Dimon / Business Person
Clients
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Serving
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Markets always change, and as soon as there's downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value.
Donald Trump / 45Th President Of The United States
Cleanliness
Downturn
Realtors
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I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.
Carly Fiorina / Executive Officer
Downturn
Bust
Packard
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
Natalie Massenet / Entrepreneur
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Shopping
Habits
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I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid off.
John Hickenlooper / Governor Of Colorado
Colorado
Downturn
Geologist
Laid
Out Here
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The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.
Robert Teeter /
Travel
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Political
President
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Rightly
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A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.
Ron Chernow / Writer
Bulls
Crash
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Long
Bull
Bull Market
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The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.
Virginia Postrel / Writer
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Debts
Inevitably
Sexier
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The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.
Ben Bernanke / Economist
Depression
Collapse
Downturn
Following
Great Depression
Japan
Severe
Great Depression Great Depression
Bubble
So-Called
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Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.
Hollis Stacy / Golfer
Bumps
Combination
Downturn
Economy
Golf
Tournaments
Bump
Due
Led
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Regardless of whether we are in an upturn or a downturn, our goal is to ensure the Volkswagen Group reaches the top of the automotive industry.
Martin Winterkorn /
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Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.
Lily Allen / Recording Artist
Artist
Buying
Downturn
Massive
People
Piracy
Records
Money Music People
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This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.
Timothy Geithner / Former United States Secretary Of The Treasury
Business
Crisis
Downturn
Severe
Typical
Usual
Adjust
Version
Cycle
Recession
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Ultimately
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The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some time and that's affecting people.
Lucy Powell / British Politician
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Housing
Housing Market
Impact
People
Real
Starting
Time People Feel
Affecting
Market
Prices
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In an ideal world, you raise a lot of money and then there is a downturn, before you start investing so you get better deals. But it doesn't always happen that way.
Naval Ravikant /
Deals
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Ideal World
Investing
Money World Better
Money Better Always
Ideal
Raise
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A serious economic downturn will undermine women's rights on multiple levels. And it is the women who are already the most disadvantaged, that will be hit hardest of all.
Konnie Huq / Television Presenter
Disadvantaged
Downturn
Levels
Multiple
Undermine
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Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character.
Holly Hunter / Actress
Delicious
Downturn
Grace
Provocative
Saving Grace
Lead Role
Television Series
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It's now widely recognised that a diverse research group is usually stronger, more creative, and more robust and flexible. Such a group usually copes better in a downturn.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell /
Diverse
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Flexible
Robust
Recognised
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A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
Jonathan Sacks / Rabbi
Future
Government
Clear
Cutting
Downturn
Economic
Fathom
Financial
Looks
Perfect
Rising
Storm
Uncertainty
Unemployment
Less
Cuts
Making
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There is a broad consensus, not only in the United States but in most of the world, that if you are in an economic downturn, you need to stimulate. Germany seems to be an exception.
Joseph Stiglitz / Economist
Consensus
Downturn
Exception
Germany
Broad
Stimulate
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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Diesel
Downturn
Eating
Fuel
Gas
Gas Prices
Income
Livelihood
Consumer
Depend
Disposal
Further
Prices
Whose
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If we were to raise interest rates too steeply, and we were to trigger a downturn or contribute to a downturn, we have limited scope for responding, and it is an important reason for caution.
Janet Yellen / Economist
Caution
Downturn
Responding
Scope
Contribute
Interest Rates
Limited
Rates
Trigger
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Any time there is an economic downturn or political strife, lipstick sales skyrocket. If you have a hard day, it's this $14 thing that lifts your day. I think drag has that same lipstick effect.
Trixie Mattel /
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Hard
Lifts
Strife
Hard Day
Sales
Skyrocket
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Let me put it very forcefully: No large economy has ever recovered from an economic downturn through austerity. It's not going to happen in the United States, and it's not going to happen in Europe.
Joseph Stiglitz / Economist
Austerity
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Recovered
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During a coronavirus-induced downturn, families will be at greater risk for food insecurity, eviction, and job loss; kids will go hungry; food pantries and social-service organizations will come under more strain.
Annie Lowrey /
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Hungry
Insecurity
Strain
Organizations
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The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.
Christina Romer / Professor
Zero
Aggressive
Downturn
New Day
Wake Up
Bound
Effective
Effective Way
Lower
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Wake
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You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
Ronald Reagan / 40Th U.s. President
Medical
Politics
Attention
Convinced
Downturn
Economic
Homeless
Long
People
Unemployed
Michael
Listened
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There were so many lead roles available when I was in my thirties. Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character.
Holly Hunter / Actress
Available
Delicious
Downturn
Grace
Provocative
Saving Grace
Lead Role
Lead Roles
Television Series
Thirties
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We like being private because when there is a downturn, as in 2001 and 2008, we do not reduce people. Also, we have flat decision-making. It's quick. We don't have to meet quarterly numbers, and it's all about excellence of work for the client.
Richard Edelman / Executive
Decision Making
Downturn
Excellence
Numbers
Client
Quick
Reduce
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The DS was launched back in 2004, and sales of that machine hit a record in 2009 in the United States. That is totally different from the conventional sales pattern, in which game gear sales peak in the third year and take a downturn thereafter.
Satoru Iwata / Businessman
Conventional
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Gear
Pattern
Sales
Thereafter
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Fear causes individuals to restrain their spending and firms to withhold investments; as a result, the economy weakens, confirming their fear and leading them to restrain spending further. The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.
Robert J. Shiller / Economist
Causes
Despair
Downturn
Vicious
Circle
Confirming
Further
Restrain
Weakens
Withhold
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Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
Manmohan Singh / Prime Minister Of India
Clear
Danger
Downturn
Giving
Lessons
Protectionism
Real
Severe
World
History World Will
History World Real
Mount
Pressures
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You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.
Ken Robinson / Author
Deep Inside
Downturn
Economic
Fathom
Uncertainty
Life Yourself Your
Inside
Life Yourself Look
Possible
Create
Talents
Times
Lead
Life Look Yourself
Passions
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Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation.
Roger Mahony /
Agree
California
Downturn
Immigrants
One Day
Severe
Spiritual
Analyst
Consider
Cultural
Gifts
Undocumented
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I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.
Paula Poundstone / Comedian
Community
Downturn
Library
People
Steady
Borrow
Libraries
Nick
Tendency
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In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others.
Michael Porter / Professor
Downturn
Instinct
Mistake
Overwhelming
Strategy
Worst
Yourself Your Mind
Board
Mind Yourself Your
Cut
Distinguish
Period
Lay
Pare
Reconnect
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