#recess

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#broader #bubble #calamity #contrast #creating

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions. ↗

— James Grant

#life #misplaced #prolongs #recessions #sustains

There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#blueprint #crisis #financial #fixing #global

I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#done #field #fire #got #growing

Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery. ↗

— Antonis Samaras

#goal #our #recession #recovery #start

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#band #because #buy #cheaper #club

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#course #days #grade #grade school #just

Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession. ↗

— Yiannis Stournaras

#end #finding #meet #objective #our

We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union. ↗

— Yiannis Stournaras

#change #changed #country #euro #european

Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary. ↗

— Ted Strickland

#back #barack #barack obama #before #could