Commercial banks - that is, fractional reserve banks - create money out of thin air. Essentially, they do it in the same… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In the simplest sense, the key to the performance of any traditional commercial bank ... is the profitability of the loans it makes. — Robert G. Wilmers Copy Share Image
“The banks are less solvent than we are being told – probably by a very wide margin. The commercial banks are limited… — Kelly Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies. — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs. — John Gutfreund Copy Share Image
Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Should we think about separating the investment banks from the commercial banks, a new Glass-Steagall? I would be really excited to see… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
If the numbers are right, ICBC [Industrial & Commercial Bank of China], which already earns nearly twice as much as JPMorgan. They'll… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel… — Said Musa Copy Share Image
“notably the 1999 repeal of the US Glass–Steagall Act – allowed commercial banks to become investment banks as well. In addition to… — Robert Skidelsky Copy Share Image
JPMorgan was already, for the most part. Our businesses at JPMorgan share the same cash-management systems. The commercial bank, the private bank,… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Value investors will not invest in businesses that they cannot readily understand or ones they find excessively risky. Hence few value investors… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from their depositors,… — Gary North Copy Share Image
If two parties, instead of being a bank and an individual, were an individual and an individual, they could not inflate the… — Irving Fisher Copy Share Image
At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system's creation of "money" in the sense of deposits, is… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
This is the joint responsibility of everyone who was involved in the introduction of the euro without understanding the consequences. When the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact 25% of our U.S. investment banking business comes out of our commercial bank. So it's a competitive… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
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