Absurd Quote by Thomas Sowell

No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to…

— Thomas Sowell

The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they…

— George Soros

“The American share of the crisis began with grossly improper mortgages provided to wholly unqualified borrowers, all directly caused and encouraged by government distortion…

— G.M.W. Wemyss

The major reform legislation, Dodd-Frank, was named after two guys bought and sold by special interests, and one of them should be shouldering a…

— Michael Burry

Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove…

— Paul Singer

I think Dodd-Frank has contributed to a concentration of banking assets in the hands of a small number of banks.

— Mitt Romney

I'll be very clear about this: I'm not a fan of getting rid of Dodd-Frank.

— James P. Gorman

There are elements of Dodd-Frank that clearly need to be curtailed.

— James P. Gorman

I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going…

— Rick Perry

Sensible risk-taking isn't just important in the financial world; risk traverses all industries.

— Randi Zuckerberg

I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what…

— Richard Thaler

“Dodd-Frank is the most restrictive financial regulation since the Great Depression—but it won’t stop another bubble.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour