Felons Quote by William K. Black

Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed to be…

— Thomas Frank

The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West…

— Sarah Lacy

It's not enough say, "Look, bankers were immensely greedy and that they committed lots of frauds." I mean, that's not, they were set free,…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

“All of these agencies were enormously active during the so-called laissez-faire era. As the former CEO of BB&T Bank John Allison notes, “Government spending…

— Don Watkins

Finding the balance between making financial institutions safe and secure and also fostering economic growth and job creation is what we need. We need…

— Bob Diamond

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in…

— Colin Powell

Regulators around the world have achieved an unprecedented level of collaboration since the financial crisis to create global standards for financial institutions. American regulators…

— James P. Gorman

There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of…

— Elizabeth Warren

It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They…

— Anthony Sampson

Every American knows that banking is complicated, and no institution is too big for oversight.

— Dean Phillips

The financial system has to be regulated, we have to end with the tax havens, and it's necessary that the central banks in the…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

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