“This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems...” — Timothy Geithner Quote

“This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.”

“In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems.”

“Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.”

“The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.”

“People talk about the energy crisis, but the worst future crisis may be in food.”

“The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street executives for the massive fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.”