19th century Quote by George Soros

There's no question the crisis demonstrated that the bank system didn't work. And when you looked at the aftermath of the crisis, what needed…

— Vikram Pandit

“The Federal Reserve System had been established to prevent what actually happened. It was set up to avoid a situation in which you would…

— Alan Ebenstein

This crisis started probably due to the freedom they gave to the banks. First President [Ronald] Reagan and then President [Bill] Clinton. So, for…

— Costa-Gavras

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

— Nigel Farage

One of the big problems we had during the financial crisis was the intermingling of banks and holding companies and complex securities.

— Steve Mnuchin

There is a well-established conviction that the central banks always do what is necessary to keep the system going and then afterwards you then…

— George Soros

The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in the design, implementation,…

— Janet Yellen

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

The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West…

— Sarah Lacy

By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own creation, the National Banking System... while the banking system…

— Murray Rothbard

The fact that the government had to put up hundreds of billions of dollars to Citibank in guarantees was a public declaration that Citibank…

— Joseph Stiglitz

From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root…

— Henry Paulson