Robin Leach Quotes

I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.

The upward economic movement in America has undoubtedly reached its end – the crisis has come.

The path we're on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.

The patient that's on the floor with the cardiac arrest is not Wall Street. It's the American economy.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

If we bankrupt America, we will all pay the price.

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.

Lack of outlets, excess capacity, complete deadlock, in the end regular recurrence of national bankruptcies and other disasters--perhaps world wars from sheer capitalist despair--may confidently be anticipated. History is as simple as that.

The financial industry may not be synonymous with economics, but it does control a large enough sector of the global economy to sink us all, as was unnervingly demonstrated in 2008.

Last year, in the year 2008, it just became normal to watch great American institutions crumble, almost dissolve like sand.

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite...know only how to feed the beast until it dies. Once it is dead, they will be helpless. Don't expect them to save us. They don't know how....and when it all collapses, when our rotten financial system with its trillions in worthless assets implodes and our imperial wars end in humiliation and defeat, the power elite will be exposed as being as helpless, and as self-deluded as the rest of us

Part of the oncoming demise (of New York during its terrible fiscal crisis) is that none of us can simply believe it. We were always the best and the strongest of cities, and our people were vital to the teeth. Knock them down eight times and they would get up with that look in the eye which suggests the fight has barely begun.

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

I admire President Obama. He inherited the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. That was a terrible time for America.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.

Financial experts are saying we are entering a new chapter in the American economy. I believe it's Chapter 11.

The euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg - and there simply aren't enough lifeboats to go round.

The Stock Market was down today. Two major businesses declared bankruptcy, consumer spending is at an all time low - in other words, Bush is back on the job.

You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.

How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in, a large section of our economy would collapse.