Aging Quote by George Will

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

— Ron Chernow

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

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

A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930. This was…

— Robert J. Shiller

“This malignant persistence since September 11th is the biggest surprise of all. In previous decades, sneak attacks, stock-market crashes, and other great crises became…

— George Packer

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

If there is one common theme to the vast range of crises...it is that excessive debt accumulation, whether it be by the government, banks,…

— Carmen Reinhart

Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to…

— Reid Hoffman

The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events should have…

— Ben Bernanke

The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our…

— Diane Watson

The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.

— Ben Bernanke

Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters-perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair-may…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter