Investing Quote by Michael Lewis

“By the middle of 2011, roughly 30 percent of all stock market trades occurred off the public exchanges, most of them in dark pools.…

— Michael Lewis

“Then came the so-called flash crash. At 2:45 on May 6, 2010, for no obvious reason, the market fell six hundred points in a…

— Michael Lewis

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

— George Soros

“The new structure of the U.S. stock market had removed the big Wall Street banks from their historic, lucrative role as intermediary. At the…

— Michael Lewis

In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over…

— Ron Chernow

For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow…

— Janet Yellen

What became clear is there had been a systemic trend across the U.S… markets had come to be controlled by a very small number…

— Lina Khan

“This was classic regulatory arbitrage. Bank managers were not unaware of the risks they courted. Wall Street has simply never kowtowed to regulations that…

— Danielle DiMartino Booth

“If anything, the unmistakable clues provided by the reports that highly intelligent and politically aware central bankers and Treasury officials became, as a collective,…

— Bernard Connolly

“Every systemic market injustice arose from some loophole in a regulation created to correct some prior injustice. “No matter what the regulators did, some…

— Michael Lewis

“The big banks and the exchanges have a clear responsibility to protect investors—to handle investor stock market orders in the best possible way, and…

— Michael Lewis

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was…

— Milton Friedman