People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans. — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Over time, low rates can put pressure on the business models of financial institutions. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do. — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Financial institutions make us nervous when they're trying to do well. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that… — Richard Shelby Copy Share Image
Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never… — William K. Black Copy Share Image
If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually using blockchain technologies for payments and settlement… — Chris Larsen Copy Share Image
After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Right, we've got these institutions of media, these financial institutions, we have the means of distribution, we have the means of production,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Large financial institutions in this country will always play a role that is essential to our economic growth. But they must only… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
What's more, sharia finance is another tool of Islamic separatism; instead of assimilating into American society, Muslims are demanding, and receiving, parallel… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
So the misplaced assumption is that we have this whole new institutional element where these [financial] institutions are looking after their own… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Perhaps more to the point for TBTF (Too Big To Fail bank), if a SIFI (Systemically Important Financial Institution) does fail I… — Jeremy C. Stein Copy Share Image
Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms. — Philip Russell Copy Share Image
Unlike Bitcoin or email, our financial institutions and payment systems today are proprietary. This limits the ability for consumers to easily switch… — Brian Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures,… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
The financial security of all Americans - their retirement savings, their home values, their ability to borrow for college, and opportunities for… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Many small businesses rely on small financial institutions, like credit unions and community banks, to meet their capital requirements. Without them, these… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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