Centre Quote by Harold Wilson

“at the height of the crash. “Each time someone at the table pressed for more leverage and more risk, the next few years proved…

— Susan Cain

At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages considerably lower…

— Noam Chomsky

“The wage controls ended, but benefits remained. In most cases, benefit”

— Dennis W. Bakke

“These examinations and certificates and so on--what did they matter? And all this efficiency and up-to-dateness--what did that matter, either? Ralston was trying to…

— James Hilton

Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have…

— Ha-Joon Chang

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their…

— Robert Kiyosaki

“Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of…

— Grover Cleveland

“In 2011, Boris Johnson, then London’s mayor, saw the downside when the capital’s fringes went on the rampage for several days, smashing up shops…

— Edward Luce

“There are no tarts in there, Charles. They were much too expensive, and Mr. Jenkins would not be reasonable. I told him I would…

— Judith McNaught

“When enough people share a short-lived delusion, vast sums of money can be acquired overnight. The ‘tulip mania’ in Holland in the mid-seventeenth century…

— Felix Dennis

“British kings could not repudiate national debts-and this in turn made Britain a more attractive country for lenders.71”

— Thomas Sowell