The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Financial institutions make us nervous when they're trying to do well. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less… — Bernard Lietaer Copy Share Image
So the misplaced assumption is that we have this whole new institutional element where these [financial] institutions are looking after their own… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Right, we've got these institutions of media, these financial institutions, we have the means of distribution, we have the means of production,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Apparently modern financial regulators are vastly more sophisticated than we were as financial regulators 25 years ago - because we had never… — William K. Black Copy Share Image
Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and… — Gary H. Stern Copy Share Image
Top management as a function and as a structure was first developed by Georg von Siemens (1839-1901) in Germany between 1870 and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I have great, great confidence in our capital markets and in our financial institutions. Our financial institutions, banks and investment banks, are… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
We've had a number of economists supporting our legislation. And here's where we are. The American people can judge. Six largest financial… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Latin America was the most obedient follower of the neoliberal regime that was instituted by the United States, its allies and the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What's more, sharia finance is another tool of Islamic separatism; instead of assimilating into American society, Muslims are demanding, and receiving, parallel… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
