Quotes About International finance

I do not do any trading internationally.

Any country whose currency is used as a reserve enjoys tremendous benefits because those currencies gain a significant discount to financing costs.

When the U.K. or U.S. government issues bonds to fund a deficit, the buyers are not solely in the U.K. or the U.S. - they're in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Investment banks provide direct access to these buyers.

Every year the international finance system kills more people than the Second World War. But at least Hitler was mad, you know.

In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication.

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

The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate.

Speculations and loans in foreign fields are likely to bring us into war... The war-for-profit group has counterfeited patriotism.

The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.

It doesn't worry me a bit that China and Japan hold so much US debt. In a way, it seems foolish for them to do it because they get lower returns than they might elsewhere. But that is their business.

The idea of cross-border payments is going to completely go away... Our vision is for there to be no distinction between international and domestic payments.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action.