#isis

The relationship between the people and their money in California is such that you can pluck almost any city at random and enter a crisis. San Jose has the highest per capita income of any city in the United States, after New York. It has the highest credit rating of any city in California with a population over 250,000. It is one of the few cities in America with a triple-A rating from Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, but only because its bondholders have the power to compel the city to levy a tax on property owners to pay off the bonds. The city itself is not all that far from being bankrupt. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#financial-crisis-of- #money

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis. ↗

— John R. Allen

#crisis #decisions #get #great #hastily

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#crisis #having #how #program #real

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. ↗

— Joe Biden

#balance of power #crisis #deal #economic #economic future

The DC 9/11: Time of Crisis film was hard to get the part; I had to audition three times. It was very serious and very sobering. We studied and tried to re-create all the stuff that we all saw that day. ↗

— Timothy Bottoms

#crisis #day #dc #film #get

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#budget #california #contributions #crisis #cuts

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the economists then frightened themselves with the sort of financial crisis they said they had abolished. ↗

— James Buchan

#crisis #economists #economy #failed #financial

The human crisis is always a crisis of understanding: what we genuinely understand we can do. ↗

— Raymond Williams

#crisis #genuinely #human #understand #understanding

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another. ↗

— Iris Chang

#another #crisis #economic #economic crisis #exploited

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#best #best work #buy #car #cars