Competition Quote by Joseph Stiglitz

There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle…

— Michael Hudson

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

We need the banks to be attractive to investors again.

— Ana Patricia Botin

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

It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.

— Alex Jones

If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at…

— Manmohan Singh

I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the supply. After…

— Arie de Geus

The banks, because of mismanagement, because of huge risk taking, are now in very vulnerable positions. We can expect that we're gonna have to…

— Barack Obama

I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean…

— Michael Hudson

“Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such restoration.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that…

— Karen Mills

Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.

— Ben Bernanke