Alan Levenson Quotes

"I don't think we're in danger of going back to the kind of cycles of the '70s or the late '80s. I think the economy is still quite flexible."

"[When major disasters strike,] the typical things that happen is that you reduce employment, production, income and spending in the areas that are affected, principally because everybody's holed up in their shelter or in a basement waiting for it to pass, ... Obviously money is not made or spending is not done as it normally would be."

"I think we are looking for the trade gap to stabilize, not to decline."