Big-banks Quote by Ziad K. Abdelnour

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to…

— George Osborne

The bank bailout should have been more focused on helping small and medium sized banks, on helping homeowners. I think the trade agreements are…

— Joseph Stiglitz

If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a…

— Matt Taibbi

Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That…

— Jerome Powell

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have…

— Timothy Noah

I admit that one should never underestimate the capacity of banks to destroy enormous amounts of accumulated capital and reduce, temporarily, the supply. After…

— Arie de Geus

We need the banks to be attractive to investors again.

— Ana Patricia Botin

If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.

— Martin O'Malley

The Great Bailout is mostly over for the banks. But for those troubled behemoths of the nation's housing bust, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,…

— Charles Duhigg

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

Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation…

— Thomas Jefferson

“That being said, it may be that opponents of bailouts are not worried about public officials' behavior at all. Perhaps the strategic behavior that…

— Richard Schragger