By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
We don't hear our president [Barack Obama] talking about the need for high-quality jobs for everybody, giving it priority, not just giving… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
By no stretch of the imagination can you describe me as a Wall Street lawyer. If you're going to do that, you'd… — Keith Rothfus Copy Share Image
We have a raising wages agenda. And that includes tax policy, trade policy. TPP is a very bad agreement. Covers 40 percent… — Richard Trumka Copy Share Image
Wall Street can be a dangerous place for investors. You have no choice but to do business there, but you must always… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I supported Barack Obama originally. I supported him for reelection and the alternative of a Mitt Romney is very, very clear to… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
OK, so here's the deal. First of all, "The Wall Street Journal" was bought for $5 billion. It's now worth $500 million,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand… — Simon Baker Copy Share Image
People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs… — Unita Blackwell Copy Share Image
Our African American kids need to know what Black Wall Street was all about. — George Hill Copy Share Image
“Take a typical three-hundred-million-dollar CMO. It would be divided into three tranches, or slices of a hundred million dollars each. Investors in… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I had a lot of fun with those guys from the Wall Street. The laughter is unlike most settings you'll find. The… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
“For though there was no chance of persuading a pension fund manager looking to make a longer-term loan to buy a Freddie… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The widely mis-interpreted 1998 'meltdown' of East Asia was a financial symptom of the renewed reality: In fact, it was the first… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that… — Susan Bysiewicz Copy Share Image
If you have the abilities to earn a lot of money and if you have the character to persist in giving that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“the cotton fields and strawberry patches of a much harsher world whose tragedies and daily burdens had blunted her temperament and quelled… — James Webb Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm at all boring. And my children don't think I'm boring. I don't think Wall Street thought I was… — Richard Cordray Copy Share Image
The steady improvement in [home] sales will support price appreciation...[despite] all the wild projections by academics, Wall Street analysts, and others in… — David Lereah Copy Share Image
Women actually do quite well on Wall Street because so much of this business is intuitive. — Elizabeth MacKay Copy Share Image
“Studs Terkel was waiting for a number 146 bus alongside two well-groomed business types. "This was before the term yuppie was used,"… — Gary Younge Copy Share Image
Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image