- Deficit Reduction
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- 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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the slow recovery after the Great Recession, inflation was very low, and it took us a while to get it back moving up.
- Hit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What happened is we went into a recession beginning in December of 2007 that was the worst since 1929. And it is a very deep hole that we have been struggling to get out of.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the program goes off track again due to recession, this should not become a pretext for the imposition of more austerity measures.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020