My looks arent going to help me explain mortgage-backed…

“And to whom were these bundles of unrecognizably mashed-up mortgages ultimately sold? Quite often, to you and me. Our pension funds, municipalities, and money-market…

— Douglas Rushkoff

If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system.

— Elizabeth Warren

Looks arent everything.

— Anonymous

Looks arent everything. so why do people care what others look like? why do they think theyre ugly??.. well no one is ugly! everyone…

— Patience

There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it…

— Ayn Rand

“Goldman Sachs and other investment banks understood the ensuing problem so well that they began betting against the very mortgage-backed securities they were underwriting!”

— Douglas Rushkoff

More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However, the nearly…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

My parents worked as brokers at Oppenheimer securities. They managed to finagle me a job.

— Steve Eisman

If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the…

— Benjamin Graham

If you're trading individual securities, you're almost certainly making a mistake. Because most professional managers can't outperform their benchmarks, and there's little reason to…

— Richard Thaler

Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced…

— Benjamin Graham

My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of…

— Myron Scholes

The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure -…

— John Perkins

Security isn't securities. It's knowing that someone cares whether you are or cease to be.

— Malcolm Forbes

Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may…

— Anonymous