Nate Silver Quotes

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.

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

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.

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

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

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.

There is one iron law of history. When a country’s economy starts to decline, if it continues to decline, it will lose its greatness.

I cannot help but raise a dissenting voice to statements that we are living in a fool's paradise, and that prosperity in this country must necessarily diminish and recede in the near future

I think people - what people want to do is make [economy] get worse.

I tell you, the economy is in bad shape. In fact, the economy is so bad, President Barack Obama's new slogan is 'Spare Change You Can Believe In.'

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

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

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.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

I think that this is the most significant financial crisis in the post-War period for the United States, and it has in fact a global reach.... I think it is extraordinarily important to understand that, as we have seen in many previous examples of different countries and different times, choking up of credit is like taking the lifeblood away from the economy.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.

For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.

A serious dose of unemployment and a spate of bank failures can make the unelectable electable quite quickly.

The Russian economy is tanking. It's gotten so bad that today Vladimir Putin had to pawn his stolen Super Bowl ring. And Putin will finance his next invasion on Kickstarter.

So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

America is dying at 1 percent GDP.

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.

The economic crisis has weakened the EU for years.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.