To be precise
“In life, there are no guarantees, and in economics, there are no guarantees. I have no doubt, though, that the steps that have been taken are critical to preventing us sliding into a depression. Whether they’re sufficient, we’ve got to wait and see,” says Barack Obama, US President.

“In life, there are no guarantees, and in economics, there are no guarantees. I have no doubt, though, that the steps that have been taken are critical to preventing us sliding into a depression. Whether they’re sufficient, we’ve got to wait and see”
— Barack Obama, US President, at the G-20 summit on whether the steps taken by the industrialised nations would prevent a further global economic slide, to Agencies
“We still have a shortage of housing. We have a shortage of true office space. We have a shortage of just about everything”
— Manit Rastogi, Founder, Morphogenesis, a Delhi-based Interior Design firm, in BusinessWeek online
“PE in India has become cautious as a result of the global meltdown and the implication for the PE industry is that we will see a lot less deals in 2009”
— Vikram Utamsingh, KPMG Head of Private Equity Advisory Group, to Agencies
“Democracy has its problems—it’s slow moving, the decisionmaking process is slow, but once decisions are taken, they are far more durable”
— Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, comparing the multi-party system in India with China’s single party rule, in The Economic Times
“I have asked the employees of AIG Financial Products to step up and do the right thing. Specifically, I have asked those who received retention payments of $100,000 or more to return at least half of those payments”
— Edward M. Liddy, CEO, AIG, to Agencies
— Barack Obama, US President, at the G-20 summit on whether the steps taken by the industrialised nations would prevent a further global economic slide, to Agencies
“We still have a shortage of housing. We have a shortage of true office space. We have a shortage of just about everything”
— Manit Rastogi, Founder, Morphogenesis, a Delhi-based Interior Design firm, in BusinessWeek online
“PE in India has become cautious as a result of the global meltdown and the implication for the PE industry is that we will see a lot less deals in 2009”
— Vikram Utamsingh, KPMG Head of Private Equity Advisory Group, to Agencies
“Democracy has its problems—it’s slow moving, the decisionmaking process is slow, but once decisions are taken, they are far more durable”
— Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, comparing the multi-party system in India with China’s single party rule, in The Economic Times
“I have asked the employees of AIG Financial Products to step up and do the right thing. Specifically, I have asked those who received retention payments of $100,000 or more to return at least half of those payments”
— Edward M. Liddy, CEO, AIG, to Agencies