Tim Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York came as close as a Fed official can to saying that we’re in the midst of a financial meltdown.
I would say politically he is as close to being dead as you can be
Doug Muzzio, a political science professor at Baruch College in Manhattan
Everyone wants to eat like an American on this globe. But if they do, we’re going to need another two or three globes to grow it all.
Daniel W. Basse of the AgResource Company, a Chicago consultancy.
[The surge in commodity prices] reminds us that globalization can also lead to upside risks to world inflation.
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet
The effects of globalization have ceased, probably in the long term, to be spontaneously disinflationary
Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer
“I can’t support him,” said Richard Dorsch, a 53-year-old paramedic fire chief from Chicago’s Edison Park. Dorsch, who said his kids liken him to Archie Bunker, voted for Clinton in the primary, though he plans to support Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona if Obama wins the nomination.
“When he talks to you, it’s like he’s talking down to you,” Dorsch said. “He doesn’t have the experience to talk like that.
—Richard Dorsch, a 53-year-old paramedic fire chief from Chicago’s Edison Park. Dorsch’s 41st Ward, which gave Clinton, 60, a six- percentage-point advantage, is 90 percent white, dominated by German, Polish and Irish ethnic police officers, teachers and city workers.
Every day is like the 1987 stock market crash. There isn’t a day when you’re not at the edge of your seat. The system is at daily risk.
Thomas Tucci, head of U.S. government bond trading at RBC Capital Markets in New York
We’re not in the ninth inning by any means, we’re maybe two-thirds through, a half to two-thirds. I think it will consume our attention for the rest of this year.
Goldman Sachs CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, claims the the credit-market contraction is at least halfway over.
If Obama gets in, it’s going to be a black thing and it’s going to be all blacks for blacks…Everything’s got to be equal.
Victoria Mikulski, a 63-year-old clerk in Edison Park
Like the Gulf states. I’ve compared Manhattan to the United Arab Emirates before. They have a nonnative working class that comes in and does all the labor, and the natives don’t have to do anything
Dalton Conley, chairman of the sociology department at NYU and author of the forthcoming The Elsewhere Society
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