Quoted: Efforts to stabilize the financial system also set the stage for financial titans to make fortunes in more lucrative areas than lending people money.

Quoted: The Great Recession was the result not only of lax regulation in Washington and reckless risk-taking on Wall Street but also of faulty theorizing in academia.

Quoted: Sorry, it's not over yet. This downturn will be severe and long-lasting, and profoundly re-shape our lives, culture, society and the world.

Quoted: Neil Barofsky is the man who tracks the historic bailout known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. The 39-year-old special inspector general monitors a dozen separate bailout-related programs that now account for nearly $3 trillion in financial commitments.

Quoted: A study by researchers from Harvard Medical School says the lack of insurance coverage can be tied to about 45,000 deaths a year in the United States.

hm...

Quoted: California may be the eighth largest economy in the world, but its state staff are being paid in IOUs, unemployment is at its highest in 70 years, and teachers are on hunger strike. So what has gone so…

yeah

Quoted: If Republicans think something might be good for the president, they’re against it — whether or not it’s good for America.

Quoted: Schools in South Africa are bursting with hopeful students, but the education system often fails those who most need it.