This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.
Austan Goolsbee
Related That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON I believe this is tied to a recession, maybe a mild recession, but a recession in that the amount of... WILLIAM SCHRADER This is the nail in the coffin for the recession camp. ANNETTE BEACHER The economy is not in a recession. This economy had enormous spending imbalances that it had to work... JAMES ANNABLE Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our countr... OMAR BONGO Is the economy in the midst of a recession? We find this difficult to believe. CAMERON BAGRIE He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just... PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH The stress on household finances in coming weeks will be the greatest since the last recession in 20... BERNARD BAUMOHL The market has done well in the year following a recession. We think the recession has ended. ALAN SKRAINKA Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t... JEANIENE FROST This is one more in a very long list of indications that have shown in the past month that this econ... DAVID KELLY This won't prevent a mini-recession in mid-1999. GARY DUGAN The great recession is upon us KENNETH WATERS JR The chances of Japan going into another recession are more than 50 percent within this year. DAVID SATTERWHITE We've been borrowing our way out of the recession, and nothing else has kicked in to take over. JAMES PARROTT Remember the recession in 2001? Now we're finally starting to pick up in the last few quarters. JOHN CONNAUGHTON The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that thi... JAY CARNEY Over the next six months, we believe there will likely be confirmation that this recession is deeper... ADAM MESURIER Over the next six months, we believe there will likely be confirmation that this recession is deeper... ADAM LE MESURIER The only risk out there is that Alan Greenspan will go one step too far and put us in a recession, .... FRANK CAPPIELLO This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical d... TIMOTHY GEITHNER In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped u... GIOVANNI AGNELLI The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If... STEPHEN HARPER We should deeply understand what Recession means to Babies to understand why they were very happy in... MINA TADROS My Dad asked me 'how come we never heard about RECESSION before?' I replied 'Because Now we are Amer... MINA TADROS If consumer spending falls, the probability of the economy slipping back into recession is very high... SCOTT HOYT There is still a distinct danger of renewed recession in manufacturing. DAVID KERN We are in spitting distance of recession, if not already sitting in it. BRENDAN O'DONOVAN No company is totally immune from disaster, chaos, recession, you name it, ... But on a scale, ours ... DONALD YACKTMAN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA I think the most important factor in getting out of the recession actually is just the regenerative ... WARREN BUFFETT We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big expor... STEPHEN HARPER If people ultimately get laid off, there are growing concerns that this could turn into a recession. GERALD FLEMING When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT We think the economy is in recession, and it looks like October is going to be weaker than September... JOE LAVORGNA Even during the recession we were bringing in people from overseas to fill niche positions. If you t... DAN CHAVASSE The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL The United States faces structural employment problems because of the long-term effects of globaliza... JOHN DELANEY I can't even SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT Our favorite games were killing. Our favorite books were death. It had been beaten into us... JOSEPH BATHANTI I'm struck, ... Originally I thought that in a recession we could get below 5 percent, but we're not... ANTHONY CRESCENZI The strong signal from the indicators means that the recession could be over soon. Three successive ... KEN GOLDSTEIN We're still in a profits recession. DAVID SOWERBY The U.S. economy appears to be slowing faster than we thought, people are eyeing a recession and, in... CARLOS LEVORIN The U.S. economy appears to be slowing faster than we thought, people are eyeing a recession and, in... CARLOS AUGUSTO LEVORIN every day life in the great recession is mostly normal but running a profitable business is a out ri... KENNETH WATERS JR To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... This event could not have come at a worse time for the economy. We were already flirting with recess... DAVID JONES We hear a lot of about the impending economic recession, but that does not imply an ad recession. In... LOWRY MAYS He [Greenspan] is going to say we're not in a recession, but the risks are very, very high, JAMES ANNABLE The growing perception is that Japan is falling back into a dark hole of recession again. CARL B. WEINBERG We've basically been in one long recession that started in the fall of 2000, LACY HUNT There are core industries in Manhattan that are thriving, despite the recession, and publishing is o... ROBERT FREEDMAN We are headed for a Katrina-induced soft patch, but I would not interpret this as the early warning ... NARIMAN BEHRAVESH When the markets struggled for a technical bounce in the morning, that was investors sending a messa... HUGH JOHNSON The numbers that we are seeing today are consistent with those we saw in the last recession, HEATHER BOUSHEY This raises the risk that we could turn over into a consumer-led recession sometime next year. KURT J. WOLFGRUBER They're priced as if there's a recession. JAMES PIZZO The trouble is that the average trader on Wall Street, he or she is so young, he doesn't even re... NOURIEL ROUBINI The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, u... BING GORDON I think monetary policy coming out of the 2001 recession did what it was intended to do, which was c... JACK GUYNN People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession. JANET YELLEN Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession... JANET YELLEN The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA Having that backlog helped IBM through the worst part of the recession. JOSEPH BEAULIEU We've gotten tremendous support. Everybody now understands how critical it is to help small busi... KAREN MILLS The potential for a cyclical downturn in 2008-09 -- or sooner if we have a global economic recession... ADAM SIEMINSKI This was done in a very tasteful way. It's an ad about a group of challenges the president has faced... RUDY GIULIANI You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. DANIEL HANNAN Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to... GEORGE W. BUSH The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up... RUSH LIMBAUGH [Extending unemployment benefits] is the only kind of stimulus that helps each and every unemployed ... WENDELL PRIMUS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our business... WARREN BUFFETT If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions pa... MARSHA BLACKBURN Starting instantly the massive construction & Infrastructure development on a large scale is the bes... ANUJ SOMANY Recession is opportunity to re-access your potentials for some & opportunity to let your potentials ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We're going to skirt a recession, CHRIS WOLFE Stay positively tuned to the success channel &every crises or recession shall be untuned. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Think Concession, you’ll have Recession and think Recession you’ll have Depression. We need to t... MINA TADROS Depression and recession go together. APURVA GAGLANI You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's... N.K. JEMISIN In my view, the perils of another burst asset bubble far outweigh the costs of another recession, STEPHEN ROACH Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. RONALD REAGAN I think we've got to try our best to come together, to collaborate, try to move this budget in the r... RICHARD GEPHARDT There is no longer a shadow of doubt that the U.S. economy is downshifting rapidly; the only questio... SHERRY COOPER We've been recession proof, which is nice. There has never been in a slump at the Cartoon Bank. BOB MANKOFF Recession is like Failure, it is an Event not a Person, so Just Move on MINA TADROS New Zealand is one quarter away from recession. The New Zealand dollar is firmly embedded in a long-... DAVID MOZINA The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG The tax relief package enacted in 2001 was central to pulling the economy out of the post 9-11 reces... J. D. HAYWORTH Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY It's definitely possible this year. This is one of our deepest, if not our deepest, teams. DON HELLING Two recessions in more than eighteen years is not a bad E.R.A. -- earned recession average. The bott... DAVID KELLY Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA
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