Bank of England Governor Mervyn King says: We are still halfway through the world’s worst financial crisis ever. He is in good company. The following experts have said that the economic crisis could be worse than the Great Depression: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke: ( http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/even-bernanke-admits-this-could-be.html ) Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan:( http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61M4B120100223 ) (and see this: http://preview.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive_en10&sid=a1aLQ51QXlDA ) Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker: ( http://www.cnbc.com/id/29304047 ) Economics scholar and former Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin: ( http://www.cnbc.com/id/26850473 ) Economics professors Barry Eichengreen and and Kevin H. O’Rourke ( http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/04/economics-professors-global-crash-worse.h… ) (updated here: http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node /3421) Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz: ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29104759#29104759 ) Investment advisor, risk expert and “Black Swan” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb: ( http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/05/taleb-global-crisis-vastly-worse-than.htm… ) Well-known PhD economist Marc Faber: ( http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/01/marc-faber-i-think-it-might-be-far.html ) Former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead: ( http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4AB7HT20081112 ) Morgan Stanley’s UK equity strategist Graham Secker: ( http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/03/morgan-stanley-predicts-economic-collapse-… ) Former chief credit officer at Fannie Mae Edward J. Pinto: ( http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/01/29/business/doc498155695e915629914618.txt ) Billionaire investor George Soros: ( http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE51K0A920090221?sp=true ) At: http://www.prisonplanet.com/mervyn-king-worlds-worst-financial-crisis-ever.html added by: Dagum
