- Nov 07, 2020
Financial Crisis Quotes
On markets under strain.
These quotes look at financial crisis from different angles, including the observation that on Wall Street a crisis 'destroys jobs' while in Washington 'it creates them,' a contrast related to About quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dynamics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The financial crisis of 2008 created a seismic shift in the dynamics of trust in financial services. FinTech would have happened without the global financial crisis - but it would have taken much longer.
- Big Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the big problems we had during the financial crisis was the intermingling of banks and holding companies and complex securities.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
My old firm, Goldman Sachs - traditionally, the best banks are leveraged 8:1. When we had the financial crisis in 2008, the investment banks were leveraged 35:1. Those rules had specifically been changed by a guy named Hank Paulson. He was secretary of Treasury.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Asian financial crisis had the impact of accelerating China's rise, the transatlantic financial crisis has had the effect of accelerating Germany's rise.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States is much further along because its financial crisis struck three years before Europe's, in 2008, causing headwinds that have pressured it ever since.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People aren't as impressed by homes anymore after they saw how they collapsed in price with the financial crisis.
- Department Of Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We urge the Department of Justice to carefully investigate and aggressively prosecute all senior bank officials who participated in manipulating the London interbank offered rate throughout the financial crisis.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington... the fiscal irresponsibility and the financial crisis that our country is facing.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting in the wake of the 2008 GFC (Global Financial Crisis), market observers have warned of a crash in the bond market. Initially, it was believed that the trillions printed to bail out the banks would cause inflation and, therefore, a flight from bonds.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted.
- 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.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama took office in the middle of a massive financial crisis. He was handed a bunch of messes all around the world and at home.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, I travel. I went to Washington to negotiate a $1 billion prepayment to Mexico on its oil revenues to help it out of its financial crisis.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020