Always Quote by Abhijit Banerjee

“Public interest has been subordinated to private interest, and when there is no clear distinction between them, it opens the door to endless opportunities…

— Nancy MacLean

“Know the hazards of lending and borrowing with friends.”

— Caprice Crane

Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That's the idea behind the best of the Obama administration's reform proposals: If banks issue securities…

— David Ignatius

“The biggest mistake that you will make in life is believing that governments act in the public interest.”

— Steven Magee

Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the financial disasters…

— Thomas Sowell

As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions…

— Noreena Hertz

Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue - and their…

— Rick Perlstein

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

— Joseph Stiglitz

With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders,…

— Elizabeth Warren

It is vital for officials and regulators to have input from people within our businesses who understand the intricacies of how financial markets operate…

— Jamie Dimon

“In post-modern finance, everybody took a risk when lending or borrowing.”

— B. Barmanbek

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker…

— Matt Taibbi