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
  • Small
  • Interesting

• 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

• We spoke about economic sanctions only recently in Lima, within the framework of APEC. Almost all the leaders represented at APEC (the Asia Pacific region), Pacific countries, spoke about the same thing, namely, that we are going through a very acute crisis in world trade, international trade, related, among other things, to restrictions on the markets of certain countries.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • World
  • Country
  • Leader

• I think a lot of people are having their midlife crisis in public. I think if you left something unfinished, go ahead and do it. But I guess I can't really answer that question in respect to my own music, because it's inconceivable.

  

  Grant Hart Hüsker Dü
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• I don't like seeing people angry.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • Angry

• You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • May
  • Jesus

• 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