Agriculture Quote by Alexander Hamilton

By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom…

— Karl Marx

“today a country’s credit rating is far more important to its economic well-being than are its natural resources.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

By fostering the economic health and vitality of local communities throughout the country, community banks play a central role in our national economy. One…

— Jerome Powell

Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market.

— Joseph Stiglitz

With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if…

— James Madison

Banks should contribute to the real economy, make a positive contribution to economic growth.

— Jeroen Dijsselbloem

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore,…

— Woodrow Wilson

There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able…

— David Korten

“In a country supposedly dedicated to the ideals of market economics, arguably the most important social function of finance – lending for home purchase – had…

— Martin Wolf

The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary…

— Ludwig von Mises

It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.

— John Maynard Keynes

The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although…

— Thomas Jefferson