“Governments of all stripes want to deliver growth and rebalance their economies now that they have learned the hard way that, left to their own devices, markets pick expensive banking losers.” WayWantHardGovernmentLeftGrowthEconomyPicksExpensiveDevicesLoserBankingStripesHard Way Author:Frances O'Grady
“If we're talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I'm talking about margins. Now, the United States has certain margin requirements that are not the same in London. Investors and hedge funds that want to borrow more money against securities ? if they can't in the U.S., they go abroad. That could add additional risks to the global economy.” IfsWantStatesCertainUnitedTalkingUnited StatesEconomyRiskSecurityStandardsAddLondonBuyingFundInvestorsRegulationMore MoneyRequirementsBankingMarginsGlobal EconomyHedge Fund Author:Muriel Siebert
“There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.” Has BeensWisdomThreePoliticsEconomyFireEconomicsInventionWheelsLiberalismBankingCentral BankingGreat Inventions Author:Will Rogers
“The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities, is not what the controllers of that credit call "interesting." He borrows with difficulty and upon high terms, and must pledge security out of all proportion to that which his richer rival has to put down.” MenWellsPoliticsTermInterestingEconomyIssuesModernSecurityActivityDifficultyCreditProportionLiberalismBankingRivalsPledgeBanking SystemControllers Book:The Crisis Of Civilization Source: The Crisis Of Civilization
“We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.” WisdomEvilPoliticsEconomyInstitutionsImprovementMediumsEmploymentLiberalismMetalsBankingIdlenessUnsafePrecious Metal Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont