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Financial Quotes by Matt Taibbi
- There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning…
- The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair…
- There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand…
- Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.
- 'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall Street…
- It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But the financial crisis…
- It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail…
- Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
- The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's…
- The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell…
- You win the modern financial-regulation game by filing the most motions, attending the most hearings, giving the most money to the most politicians and, above…
- The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively…
More Financial Quotes
- Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only get that… — Steve Ballmer
- The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created. — Javier Bardem
- For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. — Charles Baudelaire
- I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately. — Scott Adams
- I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of… — Candice Bergen
- The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in… — Ben Bernanke
- Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial… — Ben Bernanke
- Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets. — Ben Bernanke
- I support immediate financial assistance to the newly elected Palestinian president. Now, I don't know what those numbers will be, and I… — Joe Biden
- Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. — Ambrose Bierce
- Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. — Ambrose Bierce
- We can be certain that cities around the world will compete for the jobs that the next revival of the financial services… — Michael Bloomberg