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India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

Growth High India Conservation Costs Liberated Both GDP Needs

Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.

Think Happened Employment Relative Package Raising Stimulus Stimulus Package GDP Otherwise Would Yes

Influence is best measured not only by military hardware and GDP, but also by other people's perceptions that we, the United States, are using our power legitimately. That belief - that we are acting in the interests of the global commons and in accordance with the rule of law - is what the military would call a 'force multiplier.'

Cutting down a forest for timber adds to GDP, but what we don't record is the loss to our wealth in terms of natural resources.

Winnie Byanyima

Forest Wealth Down Loss Adds Cutting Natural Resources Resources Timber GDP Natural Our Record Terms

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

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Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

Growth Slow Inflation Large Accompany Debt Deficits Increasing Percentage Slow Growth Tendency GDP

In general, the PC's always had a fairly decent tie to GDP.

Always Decent General Tie Fairly PC GDP Had

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.

The question is: How do we reduce spending from 25% of GDP, which is where Obama put us? The focus is on total government spending. Can we bring it down, in a reasonable and politically acceptable way? That's what the Paul Ryan plan does. It puts us on a gradual reform path to reducing the size of government.

Grover Norquist

It's not that the regulator doesn't want the banking industry to grow. The growth of the industry has always been in relation to the GDP (gross domestic product) growth.

Growth Grow Always Want Banking Domestic Gross Product Regulator Relation Been GDP Industry

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

Art Pain Suffering Collective Causing Homo Homo Sapiens Humankind Machines Sapiens GDP

If female were working in the same proportion as men do, the level of GDP would be up 27 percent in a country like India, but also up 9 percent in Japan and up 5 percent in the United States of America. It's not just a moral issue, not just a philosophical issue. It just makes economic sense.

Christine Lagarde

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