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- Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.
- Anyone interested in the past, present, or future of banking and financial crises should read The Bankers' New Clothes. Admati and Hellwig provide a forceful…
- I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and…
- Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.
- Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.
- The shadow banking sector has played an important role in cleaning up toxic assets.
- Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit…
- The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. Banking was…
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- You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function… — Dick Cheney
- I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy… — Thomas Jefferson
- The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you… — Jean Baudrillard
- Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and… — Vince Cable
- I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it. — Jarvis Cocker
- Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin... Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the… — Josiah Stamp
- I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again — Jean Baudrillard