John Maynard Keynes Quotes

Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

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

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

The experience of the '90s, whether it's the '94 peso crisis or the '97 crisis in Asia, the '98 crisis, even the 2001 crisis, is that we recovered pretty readily. There wasn't great consequence.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

He who is involved in realpolitik must think only of the last twenty-four hours.

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

I don't think there will be a recession as a result of a vote to leave.

Forced to confront a reptile or an international financial crisis, I'll take the reptile every time.

The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.

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

Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.

If the world does well, gold will be fine. If the world doesn't do well, gold will also do fine... but a lot of other things could collapse.

You cannot have the financial system crippled because of lack of decision making and lack of quality people.

With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.

As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to come. Efforts by governments to solve the underlying problems responsible for the crisis have still not gotten very far, and the 'stress tests' that governments have used to encourage optimism about our financial institutions were of questionable thoroughness.

A financial panic is a very bad thing, but a government panic can do far greater damage in a far shorter time.

Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now, as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system.

What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture. ...In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.

Let's make sure that there is certainty during uncertain times in our economy.

Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy or the stock market. Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what's actually happening to the companies in which you've invested

It's going to be tough because the economy is going to be getting worse for a while. And it might fall off a cliff if this doesn't pass. But nobody will ever know that if it does.

When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses.

The attacks on Sept. 11 really sent a shock wave through our economy, and the full reverberation of that is not yet known.