Politics Quote by Timothy Geithner

The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation…

— William J. Clinton

The bottom line for housing is that the concerns we used to hear about the possibility of a devastating collapse—one that might be big…

— Janet Yellen

The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that…

— Mark Zandi

If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we…

— Franklin Raines

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom.…

— George Osborne

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a…

— William Greider

And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Until we stem the housing correction, until the biggest part of that is behind us and we have more stability in housing prices, we're…

— Henry Paulson

I want to say very clearly that the government... is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the stability of banks and the savings…

— Paolo Gentiloni

Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off…

— Franklin Raines

I believe strongly that we need a finance industry that is good for the economy, and I don't think anybody would argue that during…

— Hillary Clinton

The myth is that if housing prices go up, Americans will be richer. What banks - and behind them, the Federal Reserve - really…

— Michael Hudson