When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
They [political leaders ] thought the only problem was the banking system, and if they fixed the banking system, all would be… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The gang that trashed the town was now back in town to trash it even more and you'll never guess.. they decided… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Italy spills over to everything. Italy is a huge banking system. It has been the major banking system in Eastern Europe. It's… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I think what they've been doing is largely almost in firefighting mode without a good conceptual framework - either at the micro… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I've got to say our banking system is a safe and a sound one. And since the days when we've had federal… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
There are two ways to aquire the niceties of life: 1) To produce them or 2) To plunder them. When plunder becomes… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“This ... he largest financial bailout in history ... was not just a bailout of SVB [Silicon Valley Bank]. It was a… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
“the mid-2000s, Islamic banks operating in Egypt controlled around 10 per cent of the commercial deposits in the country's banking system; and… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
Essentially, not only do we believe in this myth of 'de-risking', but it has become the one overriding goal; de-risking above growth,… — Andreas Antonopoulos Copy Share Image
“The Crusaders lead to the Knights Templar; the Knights Templar lead to the Masons; and the Masons lead to the Shriners, a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“The bank - or the Company - needs - wants -insists - must have - as though the bank or the Company… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe and the eighth-largest economy in the world, and its banking system is collapsing. And Germany… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine… — Gavin Andresen Copy Share Image
I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
It's important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
U.S. Government has said they are now going to go after the terrorist's electronic banking system. You know what they should do?… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in… — John Major Copy Share Image
“under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy's stability and balanced growth... The abandonment of… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
To me, the most terrifying form of warfare would be if there was some simultaneous cyber attack on our grid, on the… — Wilbur Ross Copy Share Image
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
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
This crisis started probably due to the freedom they gave to the banks. First President [Ronald] Reagan and then President [Bill] Clinton.… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
![“They [political leaders ] thought the only problem was the banking system, and if they fixed the banking system, all would be fine. But the banking system and the mortgage problem were symptomatic of some deeper problems, and evidently they still haven't recognized those deeper problems.” quote by Joseph Stiglitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ef/joseph-stiglitz-1351_banking_they-political-leaders-thought-the-only_452687.jpg)
![“This ... he largest financial bailout in history ... was not just a bailout of SVB [Silicon Valley Bank]. It was a bailout of over fifty thousand SVB depositors with over $170 billion in deposits. It was a bailout of SVB's customers, it's employees, their suppliers, and the entire high-tech…” quote by James Rickards](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/385/james-rickards-25234_around-the-world_this-he-largest-financial-bailout-in-his_360776.jpg)
![“This crisis started probably due to the freedom they gave to the banks. First President [Ronald] Reagan and then President [Bill] Clinton. So, for [Barack] Obama it is extremely difficult to change now, to find a way to organize this banking system [differently].” quote by Costa-Gavras](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/135/costa-gavras-22487_banking_this-crisis-started-probably-due-to-the_284284.jpg)
