Crisis Quote by Timothy Geithner

Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously…

— Myron Scholes

When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies.

— Rick Santelli

Whenever there is a a financial crisis, it is always the banks that get hit.

— Gordon Wu

When large companies take on risk, then they impose risks on the rest of the system. And these are systemic risks and these systemic…

— Robert F. Engle

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a…

— Henry Paulson

Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If there is one common theme to the vast range of crises...it is that excessive debt accumulation, whether it be by the government, banks,…

— Carmen Reinhart

The banks, because of mismanagement, because of huge risk taking, are now in very vulnerable positions. We can expect that we're gonna have to…

— Barack Obama

The art of banking is always to balance the risk of a run with the reward of a profit. The tantalizing factor in the…

— James Grant

The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.

— Thomas Frank

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

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

— Ben Bernanke