The financial security of all Americans - their retirement savings, their home values, their ability to borrow for college, and opportunities for… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
We need sobriety, rationality, and civility in the discussions on the regulation of financial institutions so that the banks can return in… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial… — Alex Berenson 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
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
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
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures,… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
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
There are hundreds of millions of people around the globe who could safely repay loans but nonetheless do not have access to… — Joe Lonsdale 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
2016 has proven to be the year where the most forward-thinking financial institutions are actually using blockchain technologies for payments and settlement… — Chris Larsen 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
If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying… — Elizabeth Warren 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
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
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
The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial… — Bernie Sanders 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
Unlike Bitcoin or email, our financial institutions and payment systems today are proprietary. This limits the ability for consumers to easily switch… — Brian Armstrong 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
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
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
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
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
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
To restore confidence in our markets and our financial institutions so they can fuel continued growth and prosperity, we must address the… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Finding the balance between making financial institutions safe and secure and also fostering economic growth and job creation is what we need.… — Bob Diamond 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
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
Large financial institutions in this country will always play a role that is essential to our economic growth. But they must only… — Henry Paulson 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
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
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
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