Bankers Quote by Ben Bernanke

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

— Irving Fisher

There's no denying that a collapse in stock prices today would pose serious macroeconomic challenges for the United States. Consumer spending would slow, and…

— Ben Bernanke

The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

If you knew what was going to happen in the economy, you still wouldn't necessarily know what was going to happen in the stock…

— Warren Buffett

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies…

— Christina Romer

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And…

— Timothy Geithner

“The new structure of the U.S. stock market had removed the big Wall Street banks from their historic, lucrative role as intermediary. At the…

— Michael Lewis

A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on…

— Ben Bernanke

“The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses that underpinned…

— Lucy Moore

In a crisis, stocks of financial companies are great investments, because the tide is bound to turn. Massive losses on bad loans and soured…

— Seth Klarman

Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.

— Jamie Dimon

In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater…

— Robert Heilbroner