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There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.

— Balaji Srinivasan

The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the…

— James Grant

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated,…

— James Surowiecki

With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if…

— James Madison

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

From my point of view, the American financial system - including banks and investment banks - is far safer because of capital and liquidity…

— Jamie Dimon

Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks…

— Raghuram Rajan

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

— John Gutfreund

No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with… The existence of banks with single digit amounts of…

— Anat R. Admati

Banks get in trouble for one reason: They make bad loans.

— Carl Webb

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.

— Judd Gregg