Advantage Quote by Seth Klarman

The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost. (Investors believe…

— Seth Klarman

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And…

— Timothy Geithner

People should have an escape valve for their money, their assets. If you have substantial financial assets, the government is going to confiscate the…

— Peter Schiff

The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it will, a crisis of confidence could…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Financial crises require governments.

— Timothy Geithner

Budgets can make or break reputations and governments.

— Priti Patel

Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable.

— Jose Angel Gurria

For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with…

— Grace Napolitano

Having billions of dollars immediately available to plug budget holes without raising taxes is very appealing. And to the delight of Wall Street investors,…

— Dick Durbin

Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term…

— Bill Ackman

We can no longer contemplate a world in which public or private sector funds are used to bail out or recapitalize failing firms.

— Charles Dallara

The government has made $44 trillion in promises we can't afford to keep. We must get serious now about our long-term budgetary problems, recognizing…

— Judd Gregg