Roger Altman Quotes

Roger Altman

Profession : Businessman

Birth : April 2, 1946

The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.

Roger Altman

Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.

Roger Altman

Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.

Roger Altman

Cheap natural gas is a big stimulus to petrochemical production and a meaningful one for all U.S. manufacturing.

Roger Altman

Within a few months in 2008, household finances were crushed as asset values fell, millions of jobs were lost, countless credit cards were canceled, and thousands of homes were foreclosed on.

Roger Altman

In September 2008, the overleveraged and undermanaged U.S. banking system suffered a terrifying collapse. And that, in turn, nearly took the whole country down.

Roger Altman