Rob Portman Quotes

Normally, if you have a huge category that leads a bear market all the way down to the bottom - like tech after 2000, or energy in the '80-'82 bear market - you get one quick pop, and then years of lag as we fight the old war.

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

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

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

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

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.

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

Like a bank run, a decline in stock prices creates its own momentum.

September 2001 turned out to be an unusually bad time to sell stocks: By New Year's Day 2002, little more than three months after the post-9/11 low reached on Sept. 21, the S&P 500 had gained close to 20 percent.

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.

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

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.

I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.

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.

If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.

A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.

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

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

In history, the evidence is overwhelming: Stock market bottoms happen, and then stocks jolt upwards while the economy keeps getting worse - sometimes by a lot and for a long time.

Whenever I see a stock market explode, six to 12 months later you are in a full blown recovery.

The stock market is the world’s largest Oujie Board.

The Panic of 1893 was a dismal time of radiating destruction …. It was good for the bears …. the wild joy of men who shorted stocks and rejoiced in the ruin…

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.