Charles B. Rangel Quotes

The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events should have reminded us, and did remind us, that financial instability remains a concern, remains a problem.

I have 13 bankers in my office, and they say that if you go forward with this you will cause the worst financial crisis since World War II.

I worked on one speech about the financial system that caused the Dow to drop, like, 200 points.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'

We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature.

The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

I experienced the year 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 financial crisis, and it almost wiped out the company.

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.

I think a lot of us feel, when we look at the Dow Jones plunging, alienated - you do feel as if we're in the grip of some alien force that slipped human control.

We certainly had an upheaval at the start of the Great Depression, and that resulted in a lot of financial reform, but it wasn't done in one stroke, and it wasn't done immediately. The Depression was in 1929 and resulted in the Securities and Exchange Act of '33, '34, '35, '37, '39, and '41.

The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street.

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.

I heard that you did not have a judge to interview this month in the Bulletin, so I thought I'd help out. Besides, with the Stock Market tanking recently, it reminded me of the good old days.

If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live beneath ours.

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

What would a loss of confidence in the dollar actually look like? Gold going absolutely nuts.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.

You know, the market was down yesterday... my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.