The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were. — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“This financial crisis in Europe would have left Greece in Ruins, but it’s been that way for 2,000 years.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
People aren't as impressed by homes anymore after they saw how they collapsed in price with the financial crisis. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
The current financial crisis makes it very clears that the system that we have isn't really working, and this is the right… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like… — Bob Frank Copy Share Image
The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international… — Hu Jintao Copy Share Image
I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about… — Zhu Rongji Copy Share Image
I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you look at European societies since the financial crisis began in 2008, with very, very few exceptions, the differences between rich… — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
For the last several decades, there was a prevailing belief among traditional economists that the markets were rational and self-correcting. Alan Greenspan… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
“Every dollar they saved was worth less with every financial crisis, while the government just printed more money to preserve the stock… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
I got plenty of guesses wrong on things in the past as well. I don't want to pretend I have some great… — James Packer Copy Share Image
“The way I see it right now, the United States of America has destroyed itself, or is destroying itself from within, thus… — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
Godfulness is simply recognizing the primacy of a presence of love, spaciousness, grace, generativity, caring, and creativity in the world and in… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The rich believe that they're different and that it is their right to pay a much lower tax rate. The response that… — Robin Wells Copy Share Image
One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
“But this approach fails in cases where the future is different from the past and you don’t know the cause-effect relationships well… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
In 2012, the far-right Golden Dawn won 21 seats in Greece's parliamentary election, the right-wing Jobbik gained ground in my native Hungary,… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Raising capital. Organisations like Rio Tinto, TomTom and GKN have all raised significant sums through the equity markets. Refinancing debt. Some companies,… — Michel Syrett Copy Share Image
“This crisis didn’t have to happen. America had a boom-and-bust cycle from the 1790s to the 1930s, with a financial panic every… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The point is that price stability is only one of the indicators of economic stability. In fact, for most people, it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“LOST is often lauded as one of the best fantasy dramas in television history, as well as one of the most cryptic… — Ben East Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The US is no longer sure whether its priorities lie across the Atlantic, on the other side of the Pacific or, following… — Stephen D. King Copy Share Image
The financial crisis revealed important weaknesses in many areas of our financial system. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
Financial trouble, financial crisis, medical trouble, I've seen it all. But I never experienced a moment of breakdown or self-doubt, somehow. — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These two entities—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—are not facing any kind of financial crisis, — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
I'm quite worried about the fiscal imbalances that we've got and what that might mean in terms of financial crisis ahead. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism. — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
