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Larry Summers

"We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises."

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"We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises."

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"The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history."
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"It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today."
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"In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn."
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"Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular."
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"It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century."
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"Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response."
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"It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets."
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