Roger Ailes Quotes

It was always tough, but today we are in the throes of something we have never seen in our history. It's clear in recent times the market is looking for a bottom.

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash..

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.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising oil prices and dozens of corporate scandals. It was the third consecutive annual decline, the first time that has happened in 60 years.

The Japanese banks are not having an easy time as they once had.

You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen.

Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.

Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.

An AIG failure would have been devastating to the financial system and to the economy.

It's public news my dad was up and down financially.

Well, 2009 was a tough year.

A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000.

Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

History tells us that sharp reversals in confidence occur abruptly.

There will be no repetition of the break yesterday …. I have no fear of another comparable decline.

Shaking the confidence in the American economy. This will lead investors to refrain from investing in America or participating in American companies, thus accelerating the fall of the American economy.

When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance. We’re still dancing.

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.