Confidence Quote by Nate Silver

However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward…

— Daniel Kahneman

If the stock market does go through a crisis of confidence, which I think clearly will happen one of these days, no one can…

— David Stockman

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

— David Harvey

Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

— William Easterly

I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

— Fareed Zakaria

It is hard to have great confidence in predicting what market reactions to Fed decisions will be.

— Janet Yellen

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

“The stock market has predicted nine out of the last five recessions.”

— Anonymous

Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term debts need…

— Carmen Reinhart

History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the…

— Alan Greenspan

The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would…

— Noam Chomsky

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

— Paul Samuelson