"It is no wonder that bank capital is……" — Evan Davis
"It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion."
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63 Quotes by Evan Davis
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Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe…
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Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty,…
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At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty.…
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Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts…
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I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there…
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It doesn't annoy me but I think of myself as a presenter who is gay, rather than a gay presenter.…
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But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience…
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For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they…
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For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of…
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I've never enjoyed sleep as much until I got the 'Today' job. There is something about early sleep that's much…
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Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than…
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Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of…
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More Bank Quotes
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I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If…
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And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.
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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't…
— Michele Bachmann
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world…
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.…
— Jean Baudrillard
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank…
— Warren Beatty
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The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to…
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the…
— Benazir Bhutto
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I've got my eye on a few things to spend my money on. I've got my own bank card but…
— Justin Bieber
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let…
— Buffalo Bill
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Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.
— Josh Billings
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If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal…
— Larry Bird
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