Areas Quote by Mark Zandi

In 2007, in the early 2007, everybody saw the housing market was falling, and at any given moment a lot of people thought it…

— Lloyd Blankfein

[Obama White House] rescued the economy from the worst recession.

— Rahm Emanuel

The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households…

— Mark Zandi

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

We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20…

— Warren Buffett

President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the…

— Glenn Hubbard

“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

Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the United States…

— Barack Obama

The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth…

— Ben Bernanke

Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count…

— Mark Skousen

“Already in 2001, 63 percent of very low income households were putting more than half their income toward housing, leaving too little for other…

— Kathryn Edin

We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices…

— Ben Bernanke