Financial crisis Quotes · Page 3

People aren't as impressed by homes anymore after they saw how they collapsed in price with the financial crisis.

— Robert J. Shiller

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

— Paul Samuelson

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

— Ben Bernanke

The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.

— Ben Bernanke

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Although the financial crisis, you know, receded a while ago, we kind of never picked up on it.

— Lloyd Blankfein

Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

— Barack Obama

There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

— Balaji Srinivasan

Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a course of social…

— Ed Royce

There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from…

— Thomas Frank

I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming…

— Steve Daines

During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When…

— Anonymous

The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not…

— Lucas Papademos

Fortunately, when Korea was struck by the 1997/8 financial crisis, that was a good opportunity for us to engage in fundamental reforms…

— Lee Myung-bak

One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to…

— George W. Bush

To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable…

— Anand Giridharadas

The Fed has a lot of power in the economy because it has a big impact on the supply and cost of…

— Gerald Epstein

At a Texas college, a football field that was turned into a farm. The Tigers of Paul Quinn College lost more football…

— Hari Sreenivasan

As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive…

— Fareed Zakaria

“There are only a handful of countries that have experienced what Indonesia has endured: financial crisis, political instability, separatism, ethnic conflicts, terrorism…

— SBYudhoyono

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The genuine object of debate raised by the [2008 financial] crisis ought to be how to overcome the short-termism to which we…

— Bernard Stiegler

Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11.…

— Thomas Friedman

The Fed contributed to the financial crisis, keeping interest rates too low for too long. I give them credit for responding and…

— Kevin Brady

“LOST is often lauded as one of the best fantasy dramas in television history, as well as one of the most cryptic…

— Ben East

“The point is that price stability is only one of the indicators of economic stability. In fact, for most people, it is…

— Anonymous

“It is important to record that the ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ poster was never mass-produced until 2008. It is a historical…

— Owen Hatherley

“The financial crisis of 2008 is illustrated by the following analogy. There is no doubt that the improvements in engineering have made…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

“Yet just days later Ryanair announced that it had placed one of the biggest-ever orders for Boeing’s 737 series aircraft. The company…

— Siobhan Creaton

Let me tell you, one of the most proud aspects of my career was buying Indymac during the financial crisis.

— Steve Mnuchin

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.

— Paul Krugman

What Adam McKay did with illuminating the financial crisis in 'The Big Short,' he's now doing with the media in 'Succession.'

— Jeremy Strong

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

— James Buchan

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

— Charles Ferguson

I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies

— Henry Paulson

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not…

— Kofi Annan

If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.

— Charles Duhigg

Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit.

— Gordon Wu

Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the…

— Jon Lovett

I felt that the Fed had always been the agency that picked up the pieces when there was a financial crisis, and…

— Janet Yellen