Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master…

If you can make finance more functional, make it a tiny percent better, you create a great deal of resources, which you can use…

— Joe Lonsdale

What I am objecting to is linking bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies by federal regulations to the real economy, which would happen if we were…

— Thomas Peterffy

“Simply put, we need plenty of risk capital flowing into the real economy and real startups solving real problems. You see, if we’re living…

— Victoria Silchenko

“While the changes that are necessary are actually simple, they're painful, and require courage and sacrifice. Living standards will decline in real terms. Citizens…

— Satyajit Das

We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production,…

— Alan Greenspan

The most serious problems lie in the financial sphere, where the economy's debt overhead has grown more rapidly than the 'real' economy's ability to…

— Michael Hudson

It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less…

— Bill Gross

Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the real economy…

— Paul Krugman

A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real'…

— Peter Dicken

The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when even a…

— Paul Krugman

Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.

— Lee Myung-bak

To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.

— Ben Bernanke

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

— Jeroen Dijsselbloem

Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.

— Stanley Druckenmiller

We must not let the panicky Wall Street wheeler-dealers and the Trump-hating establishment state media talk us into a recession. We must keep the…

— Steve Hilton