- Nov 07, 2020
Recession Quotes
The numbers move first; people feel it last and longest.
These quotes trace how a recession actually unfolds, from a housing bubble's collapse sending shockwaves through the wider economy to warnings that families already stretched thin absorb the worst of any downturn first.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a recession, you must be able to call into question everything you've done before.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recently released government economic statistics covering 2010, the first year of real recovery from the financial collapse of 2008, found that fully 93 percent of additional income gains coming out of the recession went straight into the wallets and purses of the top 1 percent.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though the National Bureau of Economic Research deemed the recession to have ended in June 2009, to most Americans, that conclusion seems not to square with reality.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experience shows that a recession is never the result of just a few large industries dragging the economy down while the others continue to expand.
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- Nov 07, 2020