William Easterly Quotes

Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

William Easterly

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• 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
  • Long
  • America
  • Feeling

• Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Values

• I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Experience
  • Despair
  • Crisis

• We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Good
  • Financial
  • Crisis

• I think running a small nonprofit to work on the opioid crisis and bring interesting new businesses to the so-called Rust Belt - all of these things are valuable, if not more valuable, than running for office.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Work
  • Interesting
  • Small

• The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Crisis

• You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Serious

• A large-scale crisis - whether a terrorist attack or a financial crash - would likely provide the pretext to declare some sort of state of exception or emergency, where the usual rules no longer apply.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Financial
  • Rules
  • Crisis

• The Lord is in control. He knows the end from the beginning. He has given us adequate instruction that, if followed, will see us safely through any crisis. His purposes will be fulfilled, and someday we will understand the eternal reasons for all of these events. Therefore, today we must be careful to not overreact, nor should we be caught up in extreme preparations, but what we must do is keep the commandments of God and never loose hope!

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Up
  • God
  • Hope

• Sometimes we need a personal crisis to reinforce in our minds what we really value and cherish. The scriptures are filled with examples of people facing crises before learning how to better serve God and others. Perhaps if you, too, search your hearts and courageously assess the priorities in your life, you may discover, as I did, that you need a better balance among your priorities.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • World
  • War
  • History

• Until he left office, that man was in control. He was distraught. He was in a personal crisis of unprecedented magnitude -- all he ever wanted was to be president. But of all the presidents I have known, he was the most thoughtful.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Control
  • President
  • Crisis

• All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • Education
  • Should

• I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Financial

• To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • President
  • Right
  • Crisis

• The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • History
  • Financial

• The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U.S. financial markets and institutions.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Business
  • Confidence
  • Financial

• The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Reason

• I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis (that is the Federal Republic of Germany and France, the so-called Normandy Quartet, certainly, with close involvement of the United States, and we have intensified our dialogue on this issue), we should all be committed to the full and unconditional implementation of the agreements that were achieved in Minsk. The Minsk Agreements have to be implemented.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Thinking
  • Crisis
  • Committed

• When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Looks
  • Tree
  • Office

• We have receptors in our brain as you well know and when you ingest marijuana, I believe that it essentially gives you a reboot.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Brain
  • Marijuana
  • Essentially

• I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reality
  • Independent
  • Separate

• I began to realize something fundamental about field-work: that it is useless to concentrate exclusively on one's 'research project.' One has to be endlessly curious about everything, sharpen one's eyes and ears, and take notes about everything. The experience of strangeness makes all your senses more sensitive than normal, and your attachment to comparison grows deeper. This is why fieldwork is also so useful when you return home. You will have developed habits of observation and comparison that encourage or force you to start noticing that your own culture is just as strange.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Experience
  • Culture
  • Comparison

• Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

  

  William Easterly
  • Crisis
  • Economist