“Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.” YearsLevelsEconomyStreetsDangerousWallPercentFinancialBillionsProductiveGamblingSpeculationDeficitFees Author:Bernie Sanders
“Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people realizing that helping clients is the most important thing, not helping yourself.” PeopleThinkingImportantHelpingRealizingEconomyStreetsWallImportant ThingsIngredientsClientsGlobal EconomyHelp Yourself Author:John Kasich
“The Occupy Wall Street collective is confused about what it wants but it wants it now! Some of the loonier demands from its independent thinkers: Striking all existing public and private debt from the books across the "entire planet"; elimination of all international borders; free college education; a guaranteed "living wage" for all regardless of employment; an end to free trade; trillions in additional spending for infrastructure and ecological restoration; and ending the fossil fuel economy.” WantBookEndsEconomyStreetsCollegePlanetsWallDemandIndependentTradeInternationalDebtSpendingEmploymentBordersConfusedFuelCollectivesThinkerFossilsInfrastructureRestorationFossil FuelEcologicalEliminationFree TradeCollege EducationLiving WageOccupy Wall StreetFuel Economy Author:Mike Rosen
“We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being slaves and being free. And we will have to choose completely and for good; the time is already past now when we can choose a little of each, a little of both. We can choose a state of slavedom, and if we are powerful enough to be among the top two or three or ten, we can have a certain amount of license - until someone more powerful rises and has us machine-gunned against a cellar wall.” IfsLittlesTwoStatesEnoughWisdomPastCertainThreePoliticsPowerfulRaceEconomyColorWallAmountTenMachinesSlaveWestEastLiberalismLicenseBeing FreeCellarsEast And West Book:Essays, Speeches & Public Letters Source: Essays, Speeches & Public Letters
“Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.” IfsThinkingLooksBigsValuesEconomyTroubleStreetsCreationWallCreatingGreedSmall BusinessBig BusinessAmerican EconomyCreating Value Author:Robert Herjavec
“If you like what Wall Street did for the housing market, you'll love what Wall Street is doing for commodities. Goldman's ability to influence any portion of the price for a key component of the industrial economy is simply unacceptable.” IfsLoveAbilityEconomyInfluenceStreetsWallKeysPortionsCommodityComponentsHousingHousing Market Author:Carl Levin
“The disgraceful and shameful construction of walls, the increasing enforcement of security systems and increasing violation of human rights and labor rights will not protect the economy of the United States.” HumansStatesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyRightsSecurityWallProtectLaborHuman RightsConstructionEnforcementViolationShamefulDisgracefulSecurity SystemsViolation Of Human Rights Author:Vicente Fox
“The stock market is but a mirror which provides an image of the underlying or fundamental economic situation. Cause and effect run from the economy to the stock market, never the reverse. In 1929 the economy was headed for trouble. Eventually that trouble was violently reflected in Wall Street.” RunningCausesSituationEconomyTroubleEconomicStreetsEffectsWallMirrorsFundamentalsReverseCause And Effect Book:THE GREAT CRASH 1929 Source: THE GREAT CRASH 1929