claim: "25 percent of our economy is the financial sector."
author: david gregory
evidence_1: the most powerful applications of social technologies in the global economy are  ... can raise the productivity of knowledge workers by 20 to 25 percent. ... you with  a better browsing experience, and to enable our partners to advertise to you. ....  in four commercial sectors: consumer packaged goods, retail financial services, ...
evidence_2: mar 5, 2013 ... thirty years ago, the financial sector claimed around a tenth of u.s. ... economy,  when manufacturing was raking in 40 to 50 percent of ...
evidence_3: shifting tides: global economic scenarios for 2015–25 .... the us economy  contracted in the first quarter; growth returned to the eurozone, even as a crisis  loomed in greece. ... all of these trends could intermittently disrupt and transform  sectors. ... this gap was smaller than it had been in 2009 (3.3 percent) but  significantly ...
evidence_4: may 17, 2016 ... we all know something is deeply broken in our economy. ... “the finance industry  creates 4 percent of jobs, but takes 25 percent of the profits in ...
evidence_5: feb 25, 2014 ... hosting a huge financial centre with enormous domestic banks can be ... of  harvard business school show that the share of finance in us gdp ...