Economics Quote by Paul Krugman

We need the government to force the banks to write down all their bad assets now and then recapitalize themselves, preferably with private capital.…

— Steve Eisman

We don't have the necessary laws or powers to deal with failing non-bank institutions. If they're a big bank, the depositor has deposit insurance,…

— Henry Paulson

Finding the balance between making financial institutions safe and secure and also fostering economic growth and job creation is what we need. We need…

— Bob Diamond

Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

One of the things that the public sector banks need to do is to raise private capital from the market and not rely on…

— Urjit Patel

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

I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the supply. After…

— Arie de Geus

You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US…

— Nouriel Roubini

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to…

— George Osborne

“Even as a former Banker I can see that the Blockchain and Ethereum are challenging the role of traditional banks. I think at some…

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

The financial system has to be regulated, we have to end with the tax havens, and it's necessary that the central banks in the…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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