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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

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have…

— Timothy Noah

“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

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

The bankers just got a good cussing by everybody for loaning too much money. Well, they got some awful nice buildings. So when a…

— Will Rogers

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

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

Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit.

— Gordon Wu

You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state…

— Michael Lewis

Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system,…

— Ben Bernanke

The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's 'too big…

— Jerry A. Webman

Deutsche Bank is a problem bank.

— Steve Eisman