By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do. — Jerome Powell 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
There is some confusion in my mind whether to continue to write on banking or try newer pastures. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's eugenics studies were initially endowed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the head of the Krupp munitions… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Banking and after-dinner speaking are two of the most nonessential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform, if… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
At the heart of banking is a suicidal strategy. Banks take money from the public or each other on call, skim it… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Copy Share Image
The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back… — Duff McDonald Copy Share Image
The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today. — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
“The Lebanese banking system helps Iran, Syria & Hezbollah evade sanctions.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
You can't control income. It varies based on conditions outside of [your] control. But you can control expenses. — Sanford I. Weill Copy Share Image
The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked,… — Gabriel Kolko Copy Share Image
The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply… — Curtis Bean Dall Copy Share Image
“In fact this is precisely the logic on which the Bank of England—the first successful modern central bank—was originally founded. In 1694,… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Meyer [sic] Amschel Rothschild, who founded the great international banking house of Rothschild which, through its affiliation with the European Central Banks,… — Mayer Amschel Rothschild Copy Share Image
What the banking system needs is creditors who monitor risk and cut their exposure when that risk is too high. Unlike regulators,… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
So Merrill Lynch has launched its first campaign in years to advertise the accomplishments of its investment banking business. The ads feature… — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
“The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses… — Lucy Moore Copy Share Image