Behind Quote by David Ignatius

We have to make sure that the banks pay every nickel of loan losses that they create, but we don't want to hold them…

— Edward Conard

Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level of profit…

— Rush Limbaugh

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…

— Paul Krugman

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

— Christina Romer

We need the government to force the banks to write down all their bad assets now and then recapitalize themselves, preferably with private capital.…

— Steve Eisman

And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and…

— Arthur Laffer

One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the…

— Walter E. Williams

The financial crisis was linked to the fact that banks had excessive leverage and too many risky assets. The solution is not to try…

— John Paulson

You can look at what I did in the Senate. I did introduce legislation to rein in compensation. I looked at ways that the…

— Hillary Clinton

“Goldman Sachs and other investment banks understood the ensuing problem so well that they began betting against the very mortgage-backed securities they were underwriting!”

— Douglas Rushkoff

We need financial regulation that allows businesses and the banks they use to have access to the tools that help keep prices of consumer…

— Jim Himes

“The idea, in the wake of the savings-and-loans disaster, was to spread risk outward from those immediately involved in lending to mortgage borrowers and…

— Adam Tooze