“Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.” YearsNationsFiveIndustryTenCrisisIntervalsLiable Author:Edward Bellamy
“The two things are synergistic, the health care crisis and the food crisis. Right now, to a large extent, the food industry's biggest product is patients for the health care industry and we have to break that.” TwoCareBreakProductsIndustryRight NowCrisisPatientHealth CareTwo ThingsFood Industry Author:Michael Pollan
“With such compelling information, the question is why havent we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.” AbleAnswersInformationIndustryCrisisDrinkingAlcoholCompellingUnderage Drinking Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard
“Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and technology. Many recent discoveries have brought undeniable benefits to humanity. Indeed, they demonstrate the nobility of the human vocation to participate responsibly in God's creative action in the world. Unfortunately, it is now clear that the application of these discoveries in the fields of industry and agriculture have produced harmful long-term effects.” WorldFirstsHumansLongCharacterTodayActionCertainHumanityTermMoralTechnologyCreativeClearEffectsFieldsIndustryElementsBenefitsDiscoveryCrisisEnvironmentalLong TermApplicationSustainabilityAgricultureVocationNobilityEcologicalScience And TechnologyMoral CharacterAdvances In ScienceEcological Crisis Author:Pope John Paul II
“The financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall - inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. The real question moving forward is how the industry will respond to Wall Street reform and growing public anger.” LittlesRealMovingGrowingStreetsWallIndustryNeededTreatsCrisisFinancialSignificantMoving ForwardReformInconvenientReal QuestionsRainfallSignificant ChangeFinancial ServicesService Industry Author:Elizabeth Warren
“We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.” GrowsIndustryAuthorityCrisisClimateHostile Author:Kenneth P. Green
“For example, the insurance industries and the big banks are absolutely euphoric now - on the business pages they don't even conceal it - because they've succeeded in coming out of the crisis even stronger than they were before, and in a better position to lay the basis for the next crisis. But they don't care, because they'll get bailed out again. That's class consciousness with a vengeance.” BigsCareNextConsciousnessClassExamplePositionIndustryPagesBasesStrongerCrisisLaysDon't CareComing OutVengeanceEuphoricClass Consciousness Author:Noam Chomsky
“Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the United States to the brink of another Great Depression. When we spoke with the new president in March of 2009, the economy was losing 800,000 jobs a month, the government was throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at failing banks, and the auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Politically pummeled from all sides, Obama did his best to keep a sense of humor.” TwoWarEndsStatesHomeGovernmentJobsSidesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesEconomyFailingMonthsIndustryLosingCrisisDollarsFinancialIraqBillionsSpokesMarchSense Of HumorThrowingAfghanistanCollapseGreat DepressionVergeFinancial CrisisAuto Industry Author:Barack Obama
“Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level of profit he won't accept. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter came up with this scheme that resulted in the subprime mortgage crisis. They said it was unfair that poor and minority people didn't have houses, so we're basically gonna give 'em houses. How are we gonna do that? We're going to make the banks loan them money, knowing full well they can't pay it back.” PeopleGivingWellsSaidHousePoorLevelsPayAcceptingKnowingIndustryCrisisBillsClintonProfitBarackMinoritiesEmsSchemesUnfairThey SaidBankingLoanJimmyMortgageCarterMortgage Crisis Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Democracy in many parts of the world is undergoing a very deep crisis. Politics is becoming a branch of the entertainment industry. People vote not for the best leader, but for the funniest candidate.” PeopleWorldLeaderDemocracyIndustryBecomingVoteCrisisEntertainmentCandidatesBranchesVery DeepEntertainment IndustryBest Leader Author:Amos Oz
“Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat so much cheese? Mainly it's because the government is in cahoots with the processed food industry. And instead of responding in earnest to the health crisis, they've spent the past 30 years getting people to eat more. This is the story of how we ended up doing just that.” PeopleYearsStoriesGovernmentPastIndustryCrisisAverageFatsPoundsCheeseEarnestRespondingCaloriesSaturatedFood IndustryProcessed Food Author:Michael Moss
“The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major flaws in the way the US financial system is regulated and, more importantly, in our political system, which is essentially a bazaar of legalized bribery where financial institutions can buy themselves the governmental regulations they want, along with the regulators who routinely receive lucrative jobs in the industry whose oversight had formerly been their responsibility, the so-called revolving-door practice.” WayWantShowsJobsPoliticalOpportunityResponsibilityMoralPracticeDoorsIndustryMajorsCrisisInstitutionsFinancialAnalysisFlawsRegulationPolitical SystemsGreat OpportunityFinancial CrisisOversightBriberyRevolvingRegulatorsFinancial SystemShowcaseFinancial InstitutionsRevolving DoorsBazaars Author:Thomas Pogge
“It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis happened because AAA ratings stopped being something that had to be earned and turned into something that could be paid for.” WholeHappenedIndustrySafePaidCrisisFinancialCompassRatingFinancial Crisis Author:Matt Taibbi
“The climate crisis requires a bottom-up, grassroots demand for solutions because the elites in many parts of the world are under the influence of old industry.” WorldInfluenceIndustryDemandSolutionsCrisisClimateBottomClimate ChangeElitesGrassroots Author:Al Gore
“The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.” PeopleDiesEnergyIndustryEssentialsSickCrisisFundamentalsFaultsEnvironmentalProductionsAriseAgricultureTransportationEnvironmental Crisis Author:Barry Commoner