Quotes about Unstable Economy

Steve Wynn

Washington is unpredictable these days.

Carlos Ghosn

We are facing extreme volatility.

Albert Gallatin

... a baseless currency varying every fifty miles and fluctuating everywhere.

Describing the currency situation of the country:

Thomas Jefferson

The wealth acquired by speculation and plunder, is fugacious in its nature, and fills society with the spirit of gambling.

This is another example of Jefferson’s bias against economic sectors other than agriculture and husbandry. There is a small American population that sees business, trade, financing, as less desirable an morally suspicious enterprises.

Lukas Podolski

It's not easy in England. It's so competitive.

Eduardo Bhatia

People who hand over democracy in exchange for economic security end up losing both things.

Suze Orman

Credit card issuers and HELOC lenders are like fair-weather friends: They cozy up to you in good times, but when the economy heads south, they abandon you faster than Usain Bolt runs the 100 meters.

George Ayittey

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

James Chanos

The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile.

Norman O. Brown

All currency is neurotic currency.

Joe Miller

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

Paul Valery

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Heather Cox Richardson

By 1929, 5 percent of the population received one-third of the nation's income. The structural weaknesses of this economy plunged the nation into the Great Depression.

Don Tapscott

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

Katarina Witt

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.

Adam Cohen

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

Raghuram Rajan

We have to be careful of not injecting more uncertainty than economy can handle

Unstable Economy Quotes