Authority Quote by George Soros

Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions.

— Mariana Mazzucato

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

— Sheldon Richman

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

— Alex Kozinski

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we…

— Angela Merkel

“Politicians have often declared that unbridled competition among financial intermediaries promotes failures that will harm the public. Although the evidence that competition does this…

— Frederic Mishkin Mishkin Frederic

The Federal Reserve, the Treasury, all the regulator agencies - if there's a problem of the financial mechanism in society, the only one to…

— Dick Cheney

Governments can and do expropriate investors or discriminate against them. Domestic judicial and administrative systems provide investors with one option for protecting themselves.

— Jose Angel Gurria

Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.

— George Soros

While I am a fervent believer in free markets and limited government, there are rare instances in which government involvement is necessary.

— Steve Largent

The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost. (Investors believe…

— Seth Klarman

Financial crises require governments.

— Timothy Geithner

I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the prime minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they…

— Nick Clegg