Bigs Quote by 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

“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

The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear…

— William D. Cohan

“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

“A big Wall Street bank’s biggest advantage was its access to vast amounts of cheap risk capital and, with that, its ability to survive…

— Michael Lewis

My impression of Wall Street growing up was certainly that it was like the big, bad place where all of the men did the…

— Asia Kate Dillon

People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that there are a lot of organizations that…

— Geoffrey Canada

The way that Wall Street works is most people like very steady quarterly earnings, and they like to be very popular instead of unpopular…

— Christopher Galvin

In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting…

— James Surowiecki

By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own creation, the National Banking System... while the banking system…

— Murray Rothbard

Let's talk about why, in the 1990s, Wall Street got deregulated. Did it have anything to do with the fact that Wall Street provided…

— Bernie Sanders

'The Big Short' is, among other things, a blistering, detailed indictment of the way Wall Street does business, and its particular villains are the…

— John Lanchester