"And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results……" — Franklin Raines

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• Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you… — Rabih Alameddine
• During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history — Gavin Newsom
• Credit expansion is the governments' foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the… — Ludwig von Mises
• O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. — James Whitcomb Riley
• Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street. When you read contemporary accounts… — Edwin Lefevre
• On Wall Street, fraudulent schemes tend to thrive during economic booms, and to blow up when times turn tough. — James Surowiecki
• ...capitalism does live by crises and booms, just as a human being lives by inhaling and exhaling. — Leon Trotsky
• If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like.… — Niall Ferguson
• I don't make sonic booms. I want a whip. I like the idea of walking around making sonic booms everywhere. — Karen Marie Moning
• The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently… — John Maynard Keynes
• What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset… — Nouriel Roubini
• The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning… — Andrew Ross Sorkin

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