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Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level of profit…

— Rush Limbaugh

Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage market was…

— Michael Lewis

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

— Henry Paulson

In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence, bonuses for…

— Thomas Frank

“Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system…

— Said Elias Dawlabani

If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw…

— Thomas Friedman

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about zero to…

— Denis Hayes

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage…

— Magic Johnson

I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure.. like right now…

— Magic Johnson

When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance.…

— Hillary Clinton

There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate…

— Jesse Jackson