Financial Institutions Quotes

36 quotes by 31 authors

Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting. — Graydon Carter
At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a 70-year high and… — Franklin Graham
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings… — Jennifer Granholm
His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms. — Philip Russell
What's more, sharia finance is another tool of Islamic separatism; instead of assimilating into American society, Muslims are demanding, and receiving, parallel financial institutions that… — Robert Spencer
Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep unsound financial institutions… — Paul Krugman
RE: GSEs like Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae: "creditors will continue to underprice the risk-taking of these financial institutions, overfund them, and fail to provide… — Gary H. Stern
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure… — Hyman Minsky
Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the… — Thomas Sowell
Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help… — Ben Bernanke
There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had… — Paul Collier
I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of… — Alan Greenspan
The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the… — Alan Greenspan
With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand… — Ben Bernanke
As I write in 2012 we certainly do not believe that it is over yet, and the worst may be yet to come. Efforts by… — Robert J. Shiller
All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able to… — David Korten
A lot of our respected financial institutions are just casinos in drag. — Charlie Munger
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do. — Christina Romer
The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets. — Bernie Sanders

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