“The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.”
Kenneth Deffeyes
“Don't worry, the worst that could happen is we all die.”
Jade Curtiss - Tales of the Abyss
“The forecast for California is mediocre at best; at worst we are liable to dip into another recession, ... at least 50% if not more.”
Christopher Thornberg
“Two recessions in more than eighteen years is not a bad E.R.A. -- earned recession average. The bottom line is he did a very good job as Fed chairman.”
David Kelly
“We requested that the committee defer its request for a staff interview at least until after the August recess or until such time as we were better informed. We never received a response to this letter.”
Jeff Smith
“This in some terms has been one of the mildest recessions on record, ... but it has been a severe recession by business standards and by the standards of the industrial sector.”
Gail Fosler
“A recess is one of the sort of termination scenarios. It's definitely an idea which we don't want to do,”
Christopher Hill
