#bank

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products. ↗

— Scott Cook

#basically #before #illegal #invent #new

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#bank #banker #became #because #broker

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#back #banks #completely #corporations #exclusively

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#age #banking #banking system #conventional #faith

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it. ↗

— Chris Christie

#benefits #billion #bipartisan #did #dollars

My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened. ↗

— Warren Christopher

#banker #became #california #father #happened

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#gills #homes #london #million #most

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#class #destroyed #directly #failures #germany

I've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the very best security and I can assure you my homes are as safe as the Bank of England. ↗

— Simon Cowell

#bank #best #england #homes #hundreds

Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank. ↗

— Flavor Flav

#coach #definitely #give #i #i think