“The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.” ResponsibilityRiskSafetyInstitutionsFinancialReservesFederal ReserveFinancial MarketsFinancial InstitutionsSoundness Author:Bernie Sanders
“Anarchists generally make use if the word "State" to mean all the collection of institutions, political, legislative, judicial, military, financial, etc., by means of which management of their own affairs, the guidance of their personal conduct, and the care of ensuring their own safety are taken from the people and confided to certain individuals, and these, whether by usurpation or delegation, are invested with the right to make laws over and for all, and to constrain the public to respect them, making use of the collective force of the community to this end.” PeopleIfsMeanEndsStatesUseCareLawPoliticalCertainIndividualForceCommunityTakenMilitaryManagementSafetyInstitutionsAffairFinancialGuidanceCollectionsEtcCollectivesAnarchismAnarchistJudicialConstrainDelegationUsurpation Author:Errico Malatesta
“In engineering, people have a big margin of safety. But in the financial world, people don't give a damn about safety. They let it balloon and balloon and balloon. It's aided by false accounting.” PeopleWorldGivingBigsSafetyFinancialDamnEngineeringMarginsAccountingBalloonsDon't Give A Damn Author:Charlie Munger
“SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.” BeliefParentHurtEmotionalSafetyFinancialIsmsSafety Net Author:Douglas Coupland
“If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.” IfsYearsHas BeensProductsYears AgoCrisisSafetyFinancialCurrentsFinancial CrisisAvert Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.” ImportantWould BeAgeSocialSecuritySafetyFinancialIncomeOld AgeAffectedDisabilitySocial SecurityAmerican WomanSafety NetPrivatization Author:Barbara Mikulski
“With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.” UseIndividualSafetyInstitutionsFinancialSophisticatedIncentivesDerivativesFinancial Institutions Author:Ben Bernanke