Broads Quote by Ben Bernanke

The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.

— Ben Bernanke

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

— George Soros

In certain circumstances, financial markets can affect the so-called fundamentals which they are supposed to reflect. When that happens, markets enter into a state…

— George Soros

More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn't mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient,…

— Andrew Lo

I think financial markets only look after their own interests.

— Marine Le Pen

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about…

— George Soros

Some of the people in finance touch enormous parts of the economy.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable... and repetitive.

— Rick Santelli

Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.

— George Soros

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

— Barry Ritholtz

An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental…

— Henry Paulson

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

— Alan Greenspan