Banking Quote by John Maynard Keynes

Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.

— John Maynard Keynes

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless;…

— Josiah Warren

“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 rich inevitably are going to organize their wealth to avoid government confiscation. They’ll do whatever the law allows to use their money as…

— Jane Mayer

A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

— Thomas Jefferson

What is technically called the 'fungibility' of money, is its chief value as an article of commerce; and this fact could not long remain…

— Edward Jenks

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

— Adrian Rogers

“Such a crises occurs only where the ever-lengthening chain of payments, and an artificial system of settling them, has been fully developed. Whenever there…

— Karl Marx

Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device…

— Elgin Groseclose

We never will have any prosperity that is free from speculation till we pass a law that every time a broker or person sells…

— Will Rogers

“Charging commercial institutions with failure to educate public taste is an indulgence from which intellectuals will only be deterred when they grasp that a…

— Colin Watson