Quotes About Finance

annual increases in your rent is 4 percent per year.

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your money. Don't expect your inspections to eliminate all future

Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital. —Boris Karpov

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Even in the 1980s your average young archaeologist would have had difficulty raising capital for a house. I knew this because it's one of the things archaeologists will tell you about, at length, at the slightest provocation.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

part of me was trying not to react to my mom's palpable concern about how much the meal would cost.

accountants, for example, have probably had more impact on the world in the last fifteen years than anyone we usually consider to be creative.

Instead of introducing keen new spies into Britain, the Germans would be helping to recruit, train, finance, and transport a stream of ready-made double agents, precooked and ready to serve.

You still had to use the Balkanized, legacy banking system, which was built before the internet even existed, littered with middlemen and rent-seekers all along the way. And only if the central authorities of this network allowed it to happen, would your money move at a snail's pace from point A to point B.

Why would a strong bank pay the penalty rate if it didn't have to?

The market thinks Bernanke is a rock star!" Bob Pisani of CNBC declared (prematurely, to say the least).

As predicted, bankers remained nervous about the potential stigma of borrowing from the Fed.

the new administration was leaning toward moving consumer protection duties outside the Fed

I asked for daily reports on developments at major financial firms and,

I never read the business pages of the newspaper; I couldn't relate to the stories.

Congress opted for budget cuts and tax increases.

did a poor job of measuring and managing the risks they were taking on.

The Treasury helped us solve this dilemma to some extent, by raising money in debt markets

pushing banks to limit their risks in this area. Though

the investor would be on the hook for 10 percent of the loss.

leaving the buyers who had lent at longer maturities holding the bag.