Quotes About International finance

Because there was no obvious watershed linking policy to theory comparable to Bretton Woods, and the post-1980 infrastructure of international finance grew up piecemeal, the relationship between neoliberalism and the growth of shadow and offshore banking is only beginning to be a subject of interest. Evidence,

I'm outraged that we're building roads, schools, and hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that we're doing it with borrowed money from China that we're paying interest on. I'm outraged.

Portfolio investment, often called 'hot money' because of its volatile nature, can increase the economy's vulnerability to the vagaries of international finance. Foreign direct investment, on the other hand, is far more stable and driven by domestic fundamentals.

Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth.

it was loans from oil-rich Venezuela that allowed Argentina to pay off its IMF loans early so that it could set its own saner economic policies.

It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich.

We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.

At G-20 summit, I worked with US and other countries to bring black money back.

IMF is really designed to protect creditors not debtors.

Finance capital increasingly looked abroad for higher rates of return.

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

China owns more of our bonds than do Americans. That's not a good position to be in.

In 2013, Trump's son Eric told the sportswriter James Dodson, "We don't rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia." (On Twitter, Eric Trump denied having made the remark.)

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

I wouldn't mind paying taxes - if I knew they were going to a friendly country.

Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.

The I.M.F. programs cost us $2 billion in outflows against only $1 billion in inflows.

Bitcoin is inherently international, and one of its great promises is it enables cross-border payments in a more efficient way.

China never borrowed less than $3 billion a year during my tenure. They were the most significant client. They used the Bank not just for money but for the know-how.

We've become a debtor nation. I don't mean just on fixed-loan terms, but we own increasingly less abroad than is owned from abroad here.

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.

An American credit card… is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

When I was doing my bachelors from Delhi University, India experienced its first major external financing and currency crisis in 1990-91. This inspired me to pursue graduate work in economics and was the foundation for my interest in international finance.