Difficult Quote by Ben Bernanke

It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes…

— Mark Zandi

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie…

— Mark Zandi

In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think…

— Warren Buffett

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with…

— Paul Krugman

I think bubbles are things people see with 20/20 hindsight. If you look at any particular period where prices go up and then they…

— Eugene Fama

From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered…

— Ron Paul

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and…

— Ben Bernanke

“Back in July 2003, he’d written them a long essay on the causes and consequences of what he took to be a likely housing…

— Michael Lewis

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that…

— Mark Zandi

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

— Robert J. Shiller

It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.

— Suze Orman

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that…

— Jennifer Granholm