America Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises…

— Lawrence Summers

In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they…

— Alan M. Taylor

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

Our country today is at a cross-point of several crises that were triggered by three groups of causes: the effects of the 2008 world…

— Dmitry Medvedev

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

— James Tobin

What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis.

— Rush Limbaugh

If there is one common theme to the vast range of crises...it is that excessive debt accumulation, whether it be by the government, banks,…

— Carmen Reinhart

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root…

— Henry Paulson

The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament…

— Milton Friedman

The financial crisis of 2008-09 was in large part the result of the so-called 'success' of people who did not understand their fiduciary duty.…

— Li Lu

Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming…

— George Will

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