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title: "3 Financial Catastrophe Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [ “Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. \[ca. 1906\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edmund-morris/wall-street-billionaires-are-predicting-that-roosevelt-style-railroad/)

[Edmund Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edmund-morris/)

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> [Time is running out fast. I think we have maybe a few months -- it could be weeks, it could be days…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willem-buiter/time-is-running-out-fast-i-think-we-have-maybe-a-few-months-it-could/)

[Willem Buiter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willem-buiter/)

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> [The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zbigniew-brzezinski/the-financial-catastrophe-of-2008-nearly-precipitated-a-calamitous/)

[Zbigniew Brzezinski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zbigniew-brzezinski/)

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