Capable Quote by Paul Krugman

I do think that all economies need a sense of fiscal discipline especially over the midterm and if you are in the middle of…

— Stephen Harper

A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the banking systems…

— Alan M. Taylor

At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union,…

— Angela Merkel

“All crisis have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.

— John L. Casti

The biggest threat to advanced economies is that debt will accumulate until the overhang weighs on growth.

— Carmen Reinhart

I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If…

— Jeremy Grantham

The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

We've turned the post-war economy that made America prosperous and rich inside out. Somehow most people believed they could get rich by going into…

— Michael Hudson

There's been a dichotomy in the world financial markets over the last 30 years between the developed markets and the developing markets. Brazil, for…

— Porter Stansberry

Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

— George Gilder