Information Quote by Ron Chernow

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

“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

“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

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

“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

Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I think that the average trader didn't…

— Douglas Brunt

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

— James Surowiecki

“Another lesson I learned early is that there is nothing new in Wall Street. There can't be because speculation is as old as the…

— Edwin Lefèvre

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

Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor.

— Steven Levitt

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

— Mickey Kaus

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