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When the markets struggled for a technical bounce in the morning, that was investors sending a message that we're either heading toward an economic recession or toward a profits recession.


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It could be an economic recovery and a profits recession.
DAVID BOWERS We're still in a profits recession.
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LOWRY MAYS The potential for a cyclical downturn in 2008-09 -- or sooner if we have a global economic recession...
ADAM SIEMINSKI It's a welcome technical bounce and a relief for the markets.
PETER CARDILLO History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and econom...
PETE SESSIONS If corporate profits do go down, it's highly likely that we could see the U.S. tumble into a recessi...
DEBORA SPAR President Bush takes the credit for a 'shallow recession,' he denies any responsibility for an even ...
GENE SPERLING Starting instantly the massive construction & Infrastructure development on a large scale is the bes...
ANUJ SOMANY I believe this is tied to a recession, maybe a mild recession, but a recession in that the amount of...
WILLIAM SCHRADER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, u...
BING GORDON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic...
JAMES BUCHAN Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If...
STEPHEN HARPER Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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A.A. MILNE If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a recession. So first of all, it helped u...
GIOVANNI AGNELLI The market has done well in the year following a recession. We think the recession has ended.
ALAN SKRAINKA The pattern of job cutting that we saw in the third quarter mirrors what we have been seeing almost ...
JOHN CHALLENGER Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER I'm struck, ... Originally I thought that in a recession we could get below 5 percent, but we're not...
ANTHONY CRESCENZI Clients and investors inevitably say that a yield curve inversion spells a recession, but looking at...
MALCOLM WOOD We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The equity market typically positions itself for economic recovery at the approximate mid-point of r...
CHRISTINE CALLIES We just have a gut feeling that a lot of these folks are heading back toward the South. Amazing, isn...
BUDDY ROGERS I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean...
LISA GLATT It was a combination of a lot of things: concerns about emerging markets, a drop in consumer confide...
JOHN WILLIAMS The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans wer...
JULIANNA BAGGOTT A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, ...
PAUL CELAN There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two ...
RAHM EMANUEL Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity lea...
BILL GROSS I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I...
BOBBY W. MILLER That was a signal that we were headed toward distress.
HUGH JOHNSON We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big expor...
STEPHEN HARPER Chinese tourism was the factor that kept Hong Kong from recession,
ANDY XIE Economic data is currently pointing to a double-dip recession. ... Investors are feeling bullet-proo...
ANAIS FARAJ Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading towa...
SUSAN SONTAG The selection of a major is really not necessary for someone who is heading toward a career area.
ART JOHNSON They simply don't want a recession. It's an insurance policy.
JAMES ANNABLE Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recessio...
STEPHEN HARPER Either you have a big adjustment like a 20 percent or 30 percent decline, or you have a big recessio...
ANDY XIE The only risk out there is that Alan Greenspan will go one step too far and put us in a recession, ....
FRANK CAPPIELLO It is well documented that brands that increase advertising during a recession, when competitors are...
JOHN QUELCH The optimist would say we're in the early stage of a broad rally, the pessimist would say this is a ...
MICHAEL SHELDON When life throws you into a spin, heading toward the wall, keep focus on where you want to go.
ANTHONY ROBBINS There is a reason for stock markets to be worried. But I don't think we need to talk about recession...
ROBERT BRUSCA As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
BO BENNETT This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people throw...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE Goals seem impossible only when you are not heading toward them.
MIKE HAWKINS Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrup...
WILLIAM GREIDER The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortune...
BILL DEDMAN Instead of providing new ideas or honest answers to the economic downturn we are facing, Bush and Ch...
RICHARD GEPHARDT Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. This event could not have come at a worse time for the economy. We were already flirting with recess...
DAVID JONES Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Manufacturing has already been in an a recession ... but we were looking for a fourth-quarter turnar...
HANK COX if ever there was a time to run a deficit, it was during that recession and it was this kind of defi...
TIM KANE The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. eco...
ROGER ALTMAN We raise the prospect here that New Zealand has already fallen into a recession.
BRENT LAYTON Although earlier estimates have been revised up slightly, the new figures confirm that the sector wa...
DAVID KERN If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER If we get a downside surprise in retail sales, everybody will shrug it off. We all know that April w...
LARA RHAME I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Investors in early trade locked in profits, taking note of the weakness in some regional markets.
FRANK LIN These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON We're going to skirt a recession,
CHRIS WOLFE If film and television producers do not reach an agreement with the writers, it (Los Angeles) could ...
RICHARD RIORDAN This won't prevent a mini-recession in mid-1999.
GARY DUGAN When you're in a boom period, people are making money. When you're in a recession, you can generaliz...
JAMES BUCHEN Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
RONALD REAGAN I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhe...
NICHOLAS SPARKS It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
HARRY TRUMAN It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
HARRY S TRUMAN After a preliminary investigation we are leaning toward a version of events under which the accident...
ILHAM AMIROV This is the nail in the coffin for the recession camp.
ANNETTE BEACHER He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS A chief reason for an unrealistic price rise, inflation, poor employment generation & economic reces...
ANUJ SOMANY If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?"

"More or less." Brienne answered.

Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Today's manufacturing output figures were ... worse than the market expected. The sector continues t...
DAVID KERN Today's manufacturing output figures were ... worse than the market expected. The sector continues t...
DAVID KERN Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession...
JANET YELLEN People stop buying things, and that is how you turn a slowdown into a recession.
JANET YELLEN People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an i...
EUGENE FAMA The growing perception is that Japan is falling back into a dark hole of recession again.
CARL B. WEINBERG She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
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HUGH LEONARD I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turk...
HUGH GRANT One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can k...
HUGH JACKMAN Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.
HUGH HEFNER It frequently happens that where the second line is sublime, the third, in which he meant to rise s...
HUGH BLAIR A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign th...
HUGH SIDEY We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another...
HUGH LAURIE The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it....
HUGH LAURIE Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now b...
HUGH HEFNER I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antib...
HUGH LAURIE When you're playing an icon like Wolverine, it's sometimes better to be someone that nobody ...
HUGH JACKMAN I'm not a kid. You don't get in this business for anonymity. It's not like I have poster...
HUGH JACKMAN The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.
HUGH HEFNER The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What's am...
HUGH HEFNER The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
HUGH LAURIE