#loans

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed. Today, by contrast, credit is too tight. Mortgage loans are particularly hard to get, creating a problem for the housing market and the broader economy. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#broader #bubble #calamity #contrast #creating

I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown. ↗

— Duff Goldman

#breakdown #card #carry #credit #credit card

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #does #down #estate #fun

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#desperate #education #feeding #handed #higher

Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for? ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#housing #i #i think #loan #loans

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace. ↗

— John Murray

#big #bird #college #disgrace #fifteen

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs. ↗

— Suze Orman

#costs #loans #private #should #student

The lack of available credit and loans is having a severe impact on small businesses in particular, but also their suppliers and the bigger companies too. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#available #bigger #businesses #companies #credit

Imagine if, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast residents had to wait on Democrats and Republicans to agree on cuts before receiving clean water or loans to rebuild. Congress' negotiations often come slow or not at all. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#agree #before #clean #clean water #coast

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out. ↗

— Ray Romano

#go #i #loans #money #never