“Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what… — John Cage Copy Share Image
As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in markets - specifically, the theory that in financial markets, goods will trade at a fair value… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
The insurance companies do not refer to the key policy rate when they send their statements. We can only control that rate.… — Mario Draghi Copy Share Image
The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
There are good reasons why we don't want everyone to learn nuclear physics, medicine or how financial markets work. Our entire modern… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today. Our… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour… — J. Irwin Miller Copy Share Image
I do believe women have different ways of taking risks, of ruminating a bit more before they jump to conclusions. And I… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
But in the financial markets, without proper institutional rules, there's the law of the jungle - because there's greed! There's nothing wrong… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Bullish or bearish are terms used by people who do not engage in practicing uncertainty, like the television commentators, or those who… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets. — Chuck Grassley Copy Share Image
In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough… — George Soros Copy Share Image
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets. — Walker Stapleton Copy Share Image
One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
I think it could have real changing effects on the financial markets of our country, it could cause investors to think more… — Robert Rubin Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that decisions made by the leading central banks do affect the global financial markets and, consequently, our situation. — Elvira Nabiullina Copy Share Image
Kevin Freeman has been warning America’s leadership of the dangers of financial terrorism for the last three years. It is happening now… — William G. Boykin Copy Share Image
What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
In the financial markets, however, the connection between a marketable security and the underlying business is not as clear-cut. For investors in… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example,… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
As value investors, our business is to buy bargains that financial market theory says do not exist. We've delivered great returns to… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Below, we itemize some of the quite different lessons investors seem to have learned as of late 2009 - false lessons, we… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
There's been a dichotomy in the world financial markets over the last 30 years between the developed markets and the developing markets.… — Porter Stansberry Copy Share Image
A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets. — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
