Business Quote by Timothy Geithner

To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough.

— Edgar Fiedler

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

At the center of every recession is a serious imbalance in the economy and mirrored in the financial system. Think subprime mortgage and the…

— Mark Zandi

During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for…

— Reid Hoffman

The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in…

— David Talbot

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

— Irving Fisher

We described the coronavirus crisis as more of a shock to the system as opposed to a full-blown recession which would spiral into a…

— Cathie Wood

Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to…

— Reid Hoffman

I think the good part of the crisis is that finally, everybody is going to have to come to the table. That means the…

— Warren Hellman

The crisis was 2008, in 2015 - almost eight years later and the gap between where we would have been and where we are…

— Joseph Stiglitz

"The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing…

— Jonathon Porritt

Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.

— Lee Myung-bak