“The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.”

— Rudiger Dornbusch

Quotes in: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget (2012). Concurrent Resolution on the Budget Fiscal Year 2013. p. 95

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