The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal…

The government isn't going to say, "We're going to regulate banks, but we'll leave these other companies alone." I think the regulators want to…

— Jamie Dimon

My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a…

— Henry Paulson

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health…

— Thomas Frank

What we've underestimated is the systemic risk that that very finely tuned system of specialization exposes us to. And so I think we will…

— Paul Romer

“The solutions to this systemic risk overhang are surprisingly straightforward. The immediate tasks would be to break up large banks and ban most derivatives.…

— James Rickards

It is not my belief that we need greater government regulation of hedge funds with respect to the systemic risk they create.

— Kenneth C. Griffin

The overwhelming majority of new mortgages are issued with government backing in a highly concentrated securitization market. That leaves us with both potential taxpayer…

— Jerome Powell

As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall Street. It's…

— Tony Blankley

We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial…

— Paul Virilio

“To enable lending to proceed when the IMF’s sustainability criteria were not met, its bureaucrats designed the “systemic risk waiver.” It was a model…

— Michael Hudson

Unfortunately, tools that transfer risk can also increase systemic risk if major counterparties fail to manage their own risk exposures properly.

— Blythe Masters

A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the 2008 crisis.…

— Henry Paulson

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

— Ben Bernanke

When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies.

— Rick Santelli

We now have power under the Dodd-Frank legislation to break up banks. And I've said I will use that power if they pose a…

— Hillary Clinton