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
Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but… — Randy Schekman Copy Share Image
A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The global financial system consists of firms in the financial services sector - banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and the like -… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government… — George Soros Copy Share Image
We need to ensure that the government agencies that are supposed to be regulating the financial system are actually doing their jobs.… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
The banks, because of mismanagement, because of huge risk taking, are now in very vulnerable positions. We can expect that we're gonna… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such… — Doug Henwood Copy Share Image
In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
The economic costs, the financial costs, the job losses, the income losses, the fiscal costs of bailing out financial system are becoming… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
The welfare state is collapsing all around us. There are people that realize that we can't go on this way, but I'm… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the… — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The Death of Money is an engrossing account of the massive stresses accumulating in the global financial system, especially since the 2008… — John H. Makin Copy Share Image
Europe's financial system is fragmented, although the gap in funding costs for banks within the euro area is no longer as wide… — Mario Draghi Copy Share Image
President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political… — Lael Brainard Copy Share Image
It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going… — Robert Gibbs Copy Share Image
Hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds have played an important role in providing liquidity to our financial system and improving… — Jack Reed Copy Share Image
Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buying oil tankers. This is not a financial system… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests,… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
At the center of every recession is a serious imbalance in the economy and mirrored in the financial system. Think subprime mortgage… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
The President [Barack Obama], I think if you look at it from his shoes, you know, was facing a very difficult situation… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Of course most Americans don't know how A.I.G. brought the world's financial system to near-ruin or what credit-default swaps are. They may… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
She [Carolyn Maloney] understands the whole picture. She is comfortable with these issues 'cause she is chair of the committee, and she's… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
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