Quotes About The Housing Bubble

#1. In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the war, and - very much in third place - tax cuts.

Paul Krugman

#2. Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

Win Butler

#3. Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.

Chuck Todd

#4. In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.

Marc Faber

#5. Stronger regulation and supervision aimed at problems with underwriting practices and lenders' risk management would have been a more effective and surgical approach to constraining the housing bubble than a general increase in interest rates.

Ben Bernanke

#6. Increasing access to federal student loans has been a bipartisan effort in Washington, one that I have supported. But it has created what many experts believe is a bubble in higher education, not unlike the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis.

Marco Rubio

#7. Globalization replaced technology as the hope for the future. Since the '90s migration "from bricks to clicks" didn't work as hoped, investors went back to bricks (housing) and BRICs (globalization). The result was another bubble, this time in real estate.

Peter Thiel

#8. Strong belief in the bright future, always hiding fear of the past.

Alexandar Tomov

#9. When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

James K. Glassman

#10. I'm an old-school guy.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#11. We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn't pay their mortgages because of $4 a gallon gasoline.

Rick Santorum

#12. Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there's a housing bubble and you'll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you'll have World War III. Been there, done that!

Jeremy Grantham

#13. The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

Steven Spielberg

#14. I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.

Michael Thomas Ford

#15. You use your time to the maximum if you work constantly.

Sunday Adelaja

#16. A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

Paul Krugman

#17. Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.

Steve Maraboli

#18. Anger is the fluid that love bleeds when it gets cut.

C.S. Lewis

#19. I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.

Martin Freeman

#20. I am not a pregnant working mother wronged.

Elizabeth Vargas

#21. I'm writing a new book called 'Ventroliquism for Dummies'.

Ron Moore

#22. There is nothing in your background that inherently holds you back or means you can't achieve what others can achieve. You are the master of your own fate, and if you work hard, you can do what you want.

Nicola Sturgeon

#23. Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

Julianne Moore

#24. system that overcompensates is necessarily in overshooting mode,

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#25. There are no do-overs in life.

Conchita Hernandez Hicks