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Economic Fundamentals

"The delusion that a crisis of excess debt can be solved by creating more debt is at the heart of the Great Repression. Yet that is precisely what most governments propose to do."
-- Niall Ferguson, The Australian, Feburary 28, 2009

"This is going to be one of the worst economic downturns since the Great Depression."
--Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, April 25, 2008" 

"We're clearly on an imprudent and unsustainable fiscal path. Our current liabilities and unfunded commitments as of the end of the last fiscal year amounted to over $43 trillion, up to $13 trillion in one year alone."
--David Walker, U.S. Comptroller General (April 11, 2005)

"...the U.S. government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds..." 
--Professor L. Kotlikoff, for the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. (July, 2006)

"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" -- Will Rogers

"Ignorance Is Expensive" -- Erik Epp

"Bit by bit, from a bad seed a big but sickly tree is built with glue, nails, screws and scaffolding. Conventional economics assumes the financial system is a linear, continuous, rational machine and these false assumptions are built into the risk models used by many of the world's banks. As a result, the odds of financial ruin in a free global market economy have been grossly underestimated. By using such methods there is no limit to how bad a bank's losses can get. Its own bankruptcy is the least of the worries; it will default on its obligations to other banks - and so the losses will spread from one inter-linked financial house to another. Only forceful action by regulators to put a firewall round the sickest firms will stop the crisis spreading. But bad news tends to come in flocks and a bank that weathers one crisis may not survive a second or a third." 
--Benoit Mandelbrot - The Misbehavior of Markets (August, 2004)

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