Arianna Huffington Quotes

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.

This was 2008, you know. The economy was falling apart, spiraling. And I was hosting a game in New York, and there was $5 to $7 million on the table.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.

Unfortunately, in a recession, the people who suffer the most aren't the rich, but the wanna-be rich and the poor.

A world where wages no longer rise still needs consumers. Middle-class purchasing power has been maintained through loans, loans and more loans. The Calvinistic reflex that you have to work for your money has turned into a license for inequality.

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.

If you don't talk about families, then it's easy to disembody subprime mortgages and asset securitization and unemployment rates without remembering that every one of those numbers is a million families.

If you destroy the middle class for the sake of the economic institutions, you guarantee instability and danger.

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

The United States economy is like a poker game where the chips have become concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and where the other fellows can stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit runs out the game will stop.

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

Overpaid bankers taking big risks with other people’s money brought the world to its knees..

Unfettered free trade has led to a disaster.

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the U.S. financial system have resulted in American economic failure.