Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough.
Mario DraghiRead
Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.
Interpretation
Governments need to adopt responsible economic policies to achieve reform and maintain independence.
In this quote, Mario Draghi emphasizes the importance of sound economic and financial policies by governments as a prerequisite for reform in the euro area. He suggests that such policies not only promote economic stability but also safeguard the independence of the region, indicating a direct link between good governance and successful economic outcomes.
In practice
During a conference on economic development, one can quote Draghi to stress the importance of fiscal responsibility.
Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough.
All systems are capitalist. It's just a matter of who owns and controls the capital -- ancient king, dictator, or private individual. We should properly be looking at the contrast between a free market system where individuals have the right to live like kings if they have the ability to earn that right and government control of the market system such as we find today in socialist nations.
As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.
The interests of the IMF represent the big international interests that today seem to be established and concentrated in Wall Street.
Conventional economic theory... counts the depletion of resources as the accumulation of wealth.
Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
With neoliberalism discredited and austerity failed, we need to rewrite the rules of the economy once again. But this time in the right way. We need rules that focus on long-term economic growth, and the only kind of sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity.
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