Analyzing Quote by Robert J. Samuelson

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

— William Easterly

I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're…

— Barack Obama

The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when even a…

— Paul Krugman

“We have to see that the economy is not "in" crisis, the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work,…

— The Invisible Committee

“Financial crises—and most other failures of prediction—stem from this false sense of confidence.”

— Nate Silver

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

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

At some point, there will be some other financial crisis. It's in the nature of a capitalist system.

— Lee Hsien Loong

The financial crisis and the Great Recession demonstrated, in a dramatic and unmistakable manner, how extraordinarily vulnerable are the large share of American families…

— Janet Yellen

The financial crisis and the Great Recession posed the most significant macroeconomic challenges for the United States in a half-century, leaving behind high unemployment…

— Jerome Powell

“We produce thirty-year projections of social security deficits and oil prices without realizing that we cannot even predict these for next summer—our cumulative prediction…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

— Mark Zandi