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- Nov 07, 2020
Economic Crisis Quotes
On downturns and who really pays for them.
This page collects real commentary on financial upheaval, including a pointed observation that the people who played the smallest role in causing a crisis often carry its heaviest burden. It pairs well with Crisis quotes for a wider view of hard times.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Global Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat?
- Election
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.
- Committing
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- Nov 07, 2020
By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US.
- Free World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neoliberalism became the leading economic ideology in the U.S. and in the U.K. during Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's mandates. In this way, the leaders of the free world offered a viable solution to the economic crisis at the time: competition, deregulation, outsourcing, to name a few buzz words that have since become common place.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the alternatives we face in controlling long-term spending growth, moving Medicare to a voucher system seems only mildly unfortunate - and nothing as compared with a debt-driven economic crisis that could stem from inaction.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that if we don't get these politicians to come together we face the most predictable economic crisis in history.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020