Crisis Quote by Joseph Stiglitz Download Open image “The only surprise about the economic crisis of 2008 was that it came as a surprise to so many.” — Joseph Stiglitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crisis Economic Economic crisis Surprise
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 Copy Share Image
One intriguing subplot of the economic crisis is the failure of most economists to predict it. Here we have the most spectacular economic and… — Robert J. Samuelson Copy Share Image
This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
The financial crisis of 2008-09 was in large part the result of the so-called 'success' of people who did not understand their fiduciary duty.… — Li Lu Copy Share Image
The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
Some people say we have this inequality because some people have been contributing much more to our society, and so it's fair that they… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
It's actually a tribute to the quality of economics teaching that they have persuaded so many generations of students to believe in so much… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
In an economy, when the government spends more and invests in the economy, that money circulates, and recirculates again and again. So not only… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The laws of normal economics dictate that lower taxes combined with increased spending will lead to bigger deficits. — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability -… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
We noted the psychological problems facing many of the returning from Iraq veterans - of the 700,000 returning veterans, more than a 100,000 have… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
People in great groups have blinders on. Their work is all they see. They value failures as learning opportunities. They are optimistic, not realistic,… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our… — Jim Wright Copy Share Image
It is popular to call it a crisis of the Western world. It is in fact a crisis of the whole world. Communism, which… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Disasters affect every state, and North Carolinians have given our own tax dollars to help neighbors and those in other states in times of… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
When this coronavirus crisis is over, what kind of society will we be? A more important question is what kind of society do we… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they… — George Washington Copy Share Image