Quotes tagged ‘Banking’

(11 total)

“Never take investment advice from someone who has to work for a living.”

“These families need you. I said it quietly, and the silence stretched some more. I tried to steady my breathing. He paused again, then gave a deep sigh and said, All right. I’ll do it. I’ll do what I can.”

— Elizabeth Warren, amazon.com

“I wasn’t quite ready for a desk job when I was finishing up school. A bunch of my classmates were going into I-Banking and management consulting jobs, and I just wasn’t ready to sit behind a desk. I wanted to go out in the world, and I figured it was a good time to see what else was out there. I’ve…”

— Joe Kennedy III, thepolitic.org

“If we're right, people lose homes. People lose jobs. People lose retirement savings, people lose pensions. You know what I hate about fucking banking? It reduces people to numbers. Here's a number—every 1% unemployment goes up, 40,000 people die, did you know that?”

— Adam McKay, Charles Randolph, Ben Rickert, Brad Pitt, imdb.com

“I think my mother was right. I should've gone into banking.”

— Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Emma Ren, Sandrine Holt, imdb.com

“The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to…”

— Barry Goldwater, books.google.com

“Given that money is one half of every commercial transaction and that whole civilizations literally rise and fall based on the quality of their money, we are talking about an awesome power, one that flies under the cover of night. It is the power to weave illusions that appear real as long as they l…”

— Ron Paul, ronpaul.com

“We need to take away the government’s money power. The banking industry needs its welfare check ended. The dollar’s soundness depends on its being untied from the machine that can make an infinite number of copies of dollars and reduce their value to zero.”

— Ron Paul, ronpaul.com

“In the late 1930s, the Federal Reserve Board refused to admit it was a government institution. So Patman convinced the District of Columbia’s government to threaten foreclosure of all Federal Reserve Board property; the Board quickly produced evidence that it was indeed part of the federal governmen…”

— Matt Stoller, theatlantic.com

“At the same time that the nation has achieved perhaps the most tolerant culture in U.S. history, the destruction of the anti-monopoly and anti-bank tradition in the Democratic Party has also cleared the way for the greatest concentration of economic power in a century.”

— Matt Stoller, theatlantic.com

“In 1974, young liberals did not perceive financial power as a threat, having grown up in a world where banks and big business were largely kept under control. It was the government—through Vietnam, Nixon, and executive power—that organized the political spectrum. By 1975, liberalism meant, as Carr p…”

— Matt Stoller, theatlantic.com