#recession

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. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#could #deal #doing #great #great deal

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#brown #economy #effective #fiscal #get

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. ↗

— Franklin Raines

#fannie #high #interest #investors #low

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

— Ronald Reagan

#depression #his #job #lose #loses

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#being #building #center #city #current

Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget. ↗

— Christian Audigier

#during #everyone #forget #more #recession

If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#always #could #did #europe #expand

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

The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#affected #america #bad #bad luck #candidates