Quotes About Banking

Goldman, Sachs specialized in commercial paper, Lehman in commodity trading.

In an ironic outcome unforeseen by reformers, it would become the private bank of choice for central banks throughout the world, giving it an incalculable new advantage.

National City became known as the oil bank, much as J. P. Morgan and Company would be called the steel bank.

In time, it would become hard to disentangle the House of Morgan from various aspects of Anglo-American policy.

And he had inherited the chief American bank in London.

there will never be another bank as powerful, mysterious, or opulent as the old House of Morgan.

If somebody's got money outside of his salary, it shows up somewhere.

On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

Rawls's point was just that the rules of the game themselves should be chosen to satisfy social, not individual, ends. Bankers, in other words, are entitled to whatever they are able to negotiate with their employers, but they are not entitled to an economic system in which the financial industry is so much more profitable than any other.

If it's true that bankers are paid too much, in other words, the solution is not to get into the messy business of regulating individual pay—as indeed the financial industry itself has argued. Instead, it is to make banking less profitable overall,

Not surprisingly Wells places the City of London—the international center of banking culture—and its financial credit as responsible for knitting together world economic life over the previous hundred years. With these innovations in communications and finance, but also with the frustrations and wars inherent (so he says) in the existence of independent national states and sovereignties, came about the gradual dawning of the idea of the World-State.

The two basic human control mechanisms—religion and banking—were first formed in ancient Sumer, legacies of the Anunnaki gods, according to some. The

The market, as we're all painfully aware in the aftermath of the banking crisis, can be an idiot. It has no perception of right or wrong, or even sensible or insane. It sees profit.

At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.

A well-functioning microfinance bank can actually be a profitable business as well. So it became a perfect proof point that, through business, you can provide an experience that leads to individual self-empowerment.

I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.

Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrategic crisis and an environmental crisis. That's considerable in a country that's used to being protected.

Getúlio] Vargas decide que os prejuízos decorrentes de agressões praticadas por países do Eixo contra bens do Estado Brasileiro seriam cobertos pelos depósitos bancários dos imigrantes residentes no Brasil, pessoas fisicas ou juridicas (...)

After Dodd-Frank, the big banks were bigger. The small banks are fewer.

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.