2008 Economic Implosion Quotes

“People aren't pissed just to be pissed. They're mad because a tiny group of crooks on Wall Street built themselves beach houses in the Hamptons through a crude fraud scheme that decimated their retirement funds, caused property values in their neighborhoods to collapse and caused over four million people to be put in foreclosure.”
― Matt Taibbi

“The increase in barrel prices strongly contributed to inflation, which then triggered an escalation in interest rates, an increase that caused the explosion of the subprime bubble.”
― Matthieu Auzanneau