She [Carolyn Maloney] understands the whole picture. She is comfortable with these issues 'cause she is chair of the committee, and she's… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such… — Doug Henwood Copy Share Image
By rescuing the financial system without reforming it, Washington has done nothing to protect us from a new crisis, and, in fact,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the… — Diane Coyle 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
A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is… — James Wan Copy Share Image
The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech,… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I believe in market economics. But to paraphrase Churchill - who said this about democracy and political regimes - a market economy… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.Historically the financial system has been structured in favour of moneyed interests,… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system.… — Mark Zandi 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
You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
Like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image