“Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.”

If we don’t constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.

All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people.

We don’t know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.

In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.

This isn’t a stable system.

We’re not where we should be in terms of our national economies.

If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you’re going to have a problem.

In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don’t tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000.

The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised.

Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders

The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world.

I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.

The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable.

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom.

The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers being trapped in loans they didn’t understand and couldn’t afford.

I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD…