Checks Quote by Ayn Rand

It's like a golden rule in the pawn business: never cash a government check.

— Rick Harrison

I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who control the…

— Reginald McKenna

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

— Thomas Jefferson

“certainly influence the future course of cryptocurrencies, which we take up in chapter 14; governments everywhere are facing the question of how to balance…

— Kenneth Rogoff

The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost. (Investors believe…

— Seth Klarman

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

Governments can and do expropriate investors or discriminate against them. Domestic judicial and administrative systems provide investors with one option for protecting themselves.

— Jose Angel Gurria

“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.

— Paul Singer

The Government Securities Act gave the Treasury Department some rulemaking authority over all government securities brokers and dealers. But the act also required these…

— Jerome Powell

Getting in the middle of financial transactions is a regulatory minefield.

— Naval Ravikant

Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money…

— Irving Fisher