All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Financial institutions are not being bailed out as a favor to them or their stockholders. In fact, stockholders have come out worse… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that… — Richard Shelby Copy Share Image
Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities… — David Korten Copy Share Image
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a… — Hyman Minsky Copy Share Image
There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms. — Philip Russell Copy Share Image
The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
A lot of ambitious code has been written into the law for those and we will have to see if it actually… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps more to the point for TBTF (Too Big To Fail bank), if a SIFI (Systemically Important Financial Institution) does fail I… — Jeremy C. Stein Copy Share Image
With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same.… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
No. It is not acceptable that the 6 largest financial institutions in this country have assets of almost 10 trillion dollars, and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans. — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image