- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crisis Quotes
Lines written from the middle of hard times.
The quotes collected here range from reflections on historic struggles for freedom to commentary on financial downturns and the pressures facing young people today. Together they show a crisis as both a breaking point and, sometimes, a starting point. See also Danger for a related mood.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.
- Financial Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.
- Necessary
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- Nov 07, 2020
The failure of Lehman Brothers demonstrated that liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve would not be sufficient to stop the crisis; substantial fiscal resources were necessary.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
- Financial Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020