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“With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.”

Real Possibility Skills Accounts Pressure Management Crisis Currents Oil Uncertainty Tested Deficit Crisis Management Management Skills

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.”

Ifs Numbers Baby Despair Accounts Crisis Anguish Joyous Ecological Ecological Crisis Life And Family

Author:Jason Alexander

“For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.”

Long Important War Political Accounts Crisis Historical Narrative Confined Political Life Political History

Book:A history of the ancient world

Source: A history of the ancient world

“The problem the world faces today is that only one-third of the world's population lives in decent circumstances, while half the population of the world lives on one or two dollars a day. And even as we have this poverty and backwardness, we are facing a global environmental crisis. We need developmental models that will take into account the specific and unique position of each country and at the same time will address the environmental crisis.”

“[The economic crisis ] gave people the option to put money into private accounts.”

People Economic Accounts Crisis Economic Crisis

Author:George W. Bush

“QE and other aspects of Fed policy increased inequality pretty significantly. This is reinforced if you take into account all the other non-standard measures the Fed used to bail out the banks early on in the [2008] crisis.”

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Author:Gerald Epstein

“The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the level of resources. Doing better with less means doing it more together.”

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Author:Stephane Abrial

“....the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers. It is not they, but rather financial groups in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide upon their vertiginous passage through nations, without taking into account the serious crises they might generate.”

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Author:Patricio Aylwin

“These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.”

Humans Facts Numbers Accounts Crisis Healthcare Human History Staggering

Author:Nelson Mandela