Bankers Quote by Murray Rothbard

The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand…

— Michael Lewis

The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and…

— Gabriel Kolko

“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

Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought about some…

— George Soros

The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up…

— Robert Zoellick

“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

The economy may be complex, but Americans understand that the Wall Street banks control an outsized portion of the economy and that they have…

— Marcy Kaptur

Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in…

— Elizabeth Warren

“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

Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some…

— Carroll Quigley

To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick…

— G. Edward Griffin

“However, after several false starts and with the lessons of history fading, America, too, would finally create a permanent central bank, in 1914. For…

— Mark David Ledbetter