Crisis Quote by Ben Bernanke

Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession,…

— Hillary Clinton

I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're…

— Barack Obama

The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war,…

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes

The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than it would…

— Milton Friedman

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises…

— Lawrence Summers

The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became…

— Ben Bernanke

First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst…

— Jim Cooper

It was mid-November 2008. There were pirates taking ships with impunity in African waters, terrorists punching holes in Indian security, China sinking towards depression…

— Walter Mosley

In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no…

— Herbert Hoover

What happened is we went into a recession beginning in December of 2007 that was the worst since 1929. And it is a very…

— Austan Goolsbee

The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this…

— Jay Carney