#crisis

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#also #crisis #greece #greek #housing

Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security. ↗

— Diane Watson

#dismantle #does #exist #manufacturing #order

In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#crisis #difference #economic #economic policy #i

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#america #crisis #feeling #interested #long-term

When the times are a crucible, when the air is full of crisis, those who are the most themselves are the victims. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#crisis #victims #life

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger. ↗

— Jay Kay

#into #just #life crisis #mid-life #mid-life crisis

And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#administration #arizona #been #borders #citizens

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#business #crisis #cycle #downturn #economies

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#crisis #disconnect #doing #existential #feel

There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#always #anxiety #before #better #clarity