Quotes About Recession

John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply in late 2008 and early 2009, government officials started seeing visions of the 1930s and turned immediately to the teachings of Lord Keynes.

The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.

As far as recession goes I know its a difficult time out here for people, but me, myself, I honestly have to say Ive been put in a blessed position.

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase—'I love you.

Hyperinflation is the worst economic malady that can befall a nation. It wipes out the value of money, savings, assets, and thus work. It is worse even than a deep recession. Hyperinflation robs you of what you have now (savings), whereas a recession robs you of what you might have had (higher standards of living if the economy had grown).

Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.

I used to boast that Whole Foods was sort of recession-proof. And obviously I've been proven wrong. So I'm not boasting about that any longer.

The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the U.S. economy and millions of American lives. But the U.S. economy will emerge from its trauma stronger and widely restructured.

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.

Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer.

The '90s and early 2000s were the 'I' decade. iPhone, the iPod - everything was about me. Look where that got us? In a terrible recession.

One of the reasons the deficit got as big as it did, frankly, was because of the economic slowdown, the fall-off in deficits, the terrorist attacks. A significant chunk was taken out of the economy by what happened after the attacks of 9/11.

Then came the recession and the end of the Bush boom, and with it came the realization that we were all worker drones paying off our bloated mortgages, bloodsucking corporations and even each other- we are the dead

Not every business cycle has a financial crisis. Frequently they do.

The reason inflation was brought down to manageable levels, by the time of Ronald Reagan's re-election, was directly attributable to Jimmy Carter's very courageous act, hiring a Federal Reserve chair, with the charge to induce a recession. That recession was probably the reason he didn't win a second term.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative capacity of - of American capitalism.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

Just as the West's support for the Afghan jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s laid the ground for the rise of Islamist terrorism, so America's Faustian post-9/11 pacts with autocratic regimes helped sow the seeds for the world's current democratic recession.

GDP numbers insist we are doing well, at a time when half the country is suffering from personal recessions.

A chief reason for an unrealistic price rise, inflation, poor employment generation & economic recession is 'Right Person in Wrong Position' leading to implementation of ineffective policy & defective strategy and thereby imperilling the GDP (Growth, Development & Progress) of the nation.

One of the key reasons for an economic recession is that some right persons are at the wrong locations and not able to reach up to the deserved key positions and that's what leading to an implementation of the ineffective policies & the defective strategies, which eventually are only impairing the GDP (growth, development & progress) of the nation.