Quoting the Crisis

2009

November 118
October 142
September 133
August 132
July 169
June 154
May 89
April 139
March 217
February 102
January 120

2008

December 107
October
September
August
July
June
May
April
March
February
January
“Analysts aren’t sure how regulation will affect...”
— Joshua Scheyer in ...
Aug 31st
““Switzerland has become a paradise for foreign capital on...”
— Rolf Ribi in Schweizer Revue -...
Aug 31st
“As a banking system, we made choices. We created all sorts...”
— An Uncomfortable Choice | The...
Aug 31st
nonolet: chart-o-doom: financegeek:taitran: Too...
Aug 31st
“The case against UBS is over. The Justice Department appears...”
— Bruce Krasting: Swiss...
Aug 31st
“In fact, it is almost certainly true that the savings rate...”
— Andrew Kaplan in Guest Post:...
Aug 31st
“Since most matter in the universe could be used to encode an...”
— Daniel Krawisz. The Fallacy of...
Aug 30th
“My friend’s claim seeks to apply a worn out law to a new...”
— Colmcille, a.k.a. Saint...
Aug 29th
“The original purpose of copyright, created by the Statute of...”
— Kevin Anderson in The...
Aug 29th
“A bit of digging shows that on the day of the fateful G7...”
— Paul Waugh, about the April...
Aug 29th
“Under the $75 billion program, called Making Home...”
— Renae Merle in Subprime...
Aug 28th
“My hope is that this foreshadows a more general move away...”
— Rolfe Winkler in Rolfe Winkler...
Aug 28th
“The distinctive feature of modern American copyright law is...”
— Jonathan Lethem, in an essay...
Aug 28th
“Doctors—and many Republicans—constantly carp about the costs...”
— The Evil-Mongering Of The...
Aug 28th
Report: 10,000 stores could close by year-end
Aug 28th

we can’t afford every single person to...

nonolet: aquabooks: In my view, at this point, if we’re going to spend this much federal money,...
Aug 28th

It keeps banks honest !

“But I thought you understood”, said Moist. “You don’t need the...
Aug 28th
“A banking system that was more than 10 times larger than the...”
— Iceland: Restoring trust...
Aug 28th
“At a time when shamelessness is pervasive, we are often at...”
— China Daily article, quoted by...
Aug 27th
“ABOVE ALL, if we’re going to save the global commons, as...”
— Barry Schwartz in The...
Aug 27th
“Americans give lower marks to their health insurer than they...”
— David Leonhardt in Economic...
Aug 27th
“Visteon, which sought bankruptcy protection on May 28, wants...”
— David Shepardson in Bankrupt...
Aug 27th
“Individuals accustomed to an ethical system based on the...”
— Silvio Gaggi, quoted by Lethe...
Aug 27th
“The U.S. economy is no longer in free fall, and a healing...”
— Richard W. Fisher, president...
Aug 27th
Think Progress » Coburn tells weeping victim...
Aug 27th
“August has been a financial bonanza for shareholders of...”
— AMERICAblog News| A great...
Aug 27th
Toyota reportedly to slash production by 10%
Aug 26th
“The bottom line is that, as in this case, it is often very...”
— Peter Hirtle in LibraryLaw...
Aug 26th
“Short-term wholesale funds create liquidity risk and may...”
— Rocco Huang and Lev Ratnovski...
Aug 26th
“The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in...”
— John Maynard Keynes, quoted by...
Aug 26th
“Excessive executive remuneration is not a simple matter of...”
— Satyajit Das in Satyajit...
Aug 26th
“The $33m settlement with BofA did not require the bank to...”
— Joanna Chung in FT.com /...
Aug 26th
“The board essentially speculates on how a borrower might...”
— Chief District Judge Loretta...
Aug 26th
“As search and indexing have been treated as violations of...”
— Ikeda Nobuo, quoted and...
Aug 26th
“One of the most powerful forms of stimulus we could apply to...”
— Want to Stimulate the Economy?...
Aug 25th
“Now, more than ever, anonymity is critical to the Republic. ...”
— “Marla Singer”,...
Aug 25th
“What has recently been shown in behavioural economics...”
— Ikeda Nobuo, quoted and...
Aug 25th
“People are falling sick and dying all around us and when,...”
— Alice Walker (via azspot)
Aug 25th
“The basic problem is that the premise for the current...”
— Ikeda Nobuo, quoted and...
Aug 25th
“In terms of finance, we force 700,000 Americans into...”
— By T.R. Reid — Five...
Aug 25th
“Another reason to fear a double-dip recession is that oil,...”
— Nouriel Roubini in FT.com /...
Aug 25th
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad...”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt in...
Aug 25th
California now spends more incarcerating...
Aug 24th
“The key difference is that foreign health insurance plans...”
— By T.R. Reid — Five...
Aug 24th
“The American government — which we once called our...”
— Larry Flint in Larry Flynt:...
Aug 24th
“Even before the current crisis Reaganomics had failed to...”
— Paul Krugman in Op-Ed...
Aug 24th
“U.S. health insurance companies have the highest...”
— By T.R. Reid — Five...
Aug 24th
“This isn’t a plea for unlimited licence to...”
— Cory Doctorow: When love is...
Aug 22nd
“Technology has changed so much that now, people are quite...”
— Curt Smith (Tears for Fears)...
Aug 22nd

EXACTLY.

Betsy McCaughey: You're so rich. You can afford to provide care for anybody in your family, whatever they need.
Jon Stewart: That's right. That's why I don't mind being taxed a little more to help people who are not in as favorable a situation. I don't mind that. In fact, I welcome it, because it's a way for me to give back to the country that has allowed me to come this far.
Aug 22nd
“With cars, unlike with people, there’s a government mandate...”
— JON STEWART, The Daily Show...
Aug 22nd
“I don’t know if administration officials realize just how...”
— Paul Krugman (via azspot)
Aug 22nd
“I think the current state of US health care is precarious....”
— The Health Care Debate from a...
Aug 22nd
“Dick Armey, who is suing to get out from under the tyranny...”
— Many of the pundits attacking...
Aug 22nd
Swiss banks court new markets, shun Americans...
Aug 20th
chart-o-doom: EconomPic: Commercial Real Estate: There...
Aug 20th

Newsweek: Socialized Medicine Has a Good...

axinomancy: particlesoftruth: by Katie Connolly Most Americans have heard horror stories of...
Aug 19th
“Our government doesn’t know the difference between an...”
— blog maverick (via azspot)
Aug 19th
azspot: Hullabaloo
Aug 18th
“It is interesting that when businessmen speak of the...”
— Remember When Health Insurance...
Aug 18th
“The numbers for the Community Bank of Nevada, Las Vegas,...”
— Calculated Risk: WSJ: Loss...
Aug 18th
“Some refer to this practice as yoga piracy, where people...”
— Juhie Bhatia in Global Voices...
Aug 18th
Loss Rates for FDIC higher than during S&L...
Aug 18th
“Alarmed by the growing number of instances of Western yoga...”
— Amit Agarwal in India fights...
Aug 18th
“No one in America should go broke because they get sick.”
— Barack Obama, president of the...
Aug 17th
“B&B, which was the UK’s largest lender to landlords...”
— Katherine Griffiths, Gràinne...
Aug 17th
“Either way, though, one more American myth bites the dust....”
— Paul Krugman in Big business...
Aug 17th
“the United States is not the nation of small businesses that...”
— Mark Weisbrot in US economic...
Aug 17th
US Economic Myths Bite the Dust
Aug 17th
“By the same token, if the American household sector...”
— Marshall Auerback in naked...
Aug 17th
“The insurance these “too big to fail” banks are...”
— Robert Reich’s Blog:...
Aug 16th
“But here’s my question: Since when is it conservative to...”
— Dr. Andrew Weil (via azspot)
Aug 16th
Firefighting in the 1800’s: A Corrupt,...
Aug 16th
“There is no doubt that “regulatory capture” exists and is a...”
— Jim Coffey, who retired two...
Aug 16th
“The reason we apparently do not adopt this alternative...”
— Marshall Auerback in naked...
Aug 16th
“Even if you believe Wall Street needs “talent,”...”
— Robert Reich’s Blog:...
Aug 16th
“we’re launching an initiative to help authors and...”
— Xian Ke, Associate Product...
Aug 16th
“Comparable” pay is a ridiculous standard to begin...”
— Robert Reich’s Blog:...
Aug 16th
“In America, we strictly ration health care. We’ve done it...”
— Doctors Say Health Care...
Aug 14th
“There is no business in America that makes more money than...”
— soupsoup (via caraobrien) (via...
Aug 14th
“Over the last thirty years, the social compact that divided...”
— John Robb (via azspot)
Aug 13th
“Rent-seeking means effectively a tax extracted by one sector...”
— Simon Johnson in The Baseline...
Aug 13th
“While people moan and say the game is “rigged” against the...”
— The Dangerous Nonsense Of A...
Aug 12th
“We talk about economic development and markets and...”
— Aaron Swartz (via azspot)
Aug 12th
“When I hear politicians and reporters cry that we should not...”
— Readers Respond to Charles...
Aug 12th
“…the real issue in the debate about health care became...”
— Thin Places (via azspot)
Aug 12th
“European drug companies charge 1/3 to 1/5 the price that...”
— AMERICAblog News| A great...
Aug 12th
California Won't Even Accept Its Own IOUs
Aug 11th
chart-o-doom: EconomPic: Consumer Credit Down Sharply ...
Aug 11th
Healthcare and the CIA World Factbook
Aug 11th
“Are we really so sure that “one group,” Wall Street, was not...”
— Dean Starkman in Don’t...
Aug 11th
“The [Baltic Dry] index fell from 3,350 to 2,772 this week –...”
— Gary White in Baltic Dry Index...
Aug 11th
“The IMF data on exports track a 36 percent fall from the...”
— Laura Conaway in Chart: The...
Aug 11th
“Insurance companies can be no better. There is no limit on...”
— Ann K., quoted by Caitlin...
Aug 11th
“As the world develops in the long, long run, and as...”
— Economist’s View:...
Aug 11th
“Last week, after being reported in the Los Angeles Times,...”
— Robert Reich (via azspot)
Aug 10th
“We think about regulation only in terms of how to engineer...”
— Filling the Financial...
Aug 10th
“The recession of the ’80s transformed the working class into...”
— Barbara Ehrenreich (via...
Aug 10th
Health Insurance Woes: My $22,000 Bill for...
Aug 10th
“Italians grumble that Goldman Sachs runs their country, much...”
— Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in...
Aug 9th
“Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has warned his employess...”
— Mark Decambre in GOLDMAN SACHS...
Aug 8th
“And there’s a good case that such activities are actually...”
— Paul Krugman in Op-Ed...
Aug 8th
“Congress is engaged in a turf war against the Fed,...”
— Yves Smith in naked...
Aug 8th
“the National Portrait Gallery of London (NPG) recently sent...”
— Fred von Lohmann in EFF...
Aug 8th
“If I understand the practice correctly, flash orders are...”
— James Kwak in Who Should Hide...
Aug 7th
“Opponents of such regulation will argue that the government...”
— Lucian Bebchuk in FT.com /...
Aug 7th

Common Sense Czar

Think about how a Common Sense Czar would have approached our current crisis BEFORE it fully...
Aug 7th
“If the AP actually wants a “beacon” that reports usage...”
— Ben Adida in Rights Expression...
Aug 7th
“A lot of the baby boomers who learned their economics...”
— Mark Dow in Brad Setser:...
Aug 6th
“The failure was due to the sociology of the economics...”
— Thomas Palley in Thomas Palley...
Aug 6th
“German consumer prices fell for the first time in 22 years...”
— BBC NEWS | Business | Consumer...
Aug 6th
“Contrary opinion from a subscriber regarding W. Grace’s...”
— News from 1930: Monday, July...
Aug 6th
“The U.S.’ and Canada’s different health...”
— Michael M. Rachlis in A...
Aug 5th
“The bottom line is, either community banks are just as...”
— James Kwak in Community Banks,...
Aug 5th
“If, as I suspect, rescission is targeted toward the truly...”
— Unconscionable Math...
Aug 5th
“In the case of Compensation Committees, recent events...”
— Francine McKenna in re: The...
Aug 5th
“To begin with, any new copyright law must recognize that the...”
— Matthew Johnson in MNet Blog -...
Aug 5th
“Monthly wages including overtime and bonuses dropped 7.1 per...”
— Japanese wages in record...
Aug 4th
“The pattern was the same in each case. Following financial...”
— Bookblogging: Failure of the...
Aug 3rd
“Reliance on ‘leverage’ to multiply profits has been a...”
— Bookblogging: Failure of the...
Aug 3rd
“In June, seasonally adjusted [durable goods] shipments for...”
— Floyd Norris in Off the Charts...
Aug 3rd
“The most important questions of all are not even asked in “A...”
— Arthur Doyle in naked...
Aug 3rd
“GDP is now 3.9% below the recent peak. In terms of declines...”
— Calculated Risk: Real Declines...
Aug 2nd
“There’s a huge disconnect between what the average American...”
— White House senior adviser...
Aug 2nd
“An italian development economist, Innocenzo Gasparini, who...”
— Economist’s View: Social...
Aug 2nd
By Year’s End, Benefit Lifeline to End for...
Aug 2nd
“What is really concerning is that the Commission is pushing...”
— Monica Horten in European...
Aug 2nd
“So now GE is using its control of NBC and MSNBC to ensure...”
— Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
Aug 2nd
“My view is that some assets in the senior preferred will...”
— Federal Housing Finance Agency...
Aug 1st
“The bottom line is, this insurance should have never been...”
— An adviser working on the...
Aug 1st
“At a time when the financial industry’s credibility is at an...”
— David Pauly in Wall Street...
Aug 1st
“The point is that while monolines might be absorbing some of...”
— Tracy Alloway in FT Alphaville...
Aug 1st