#banks

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#banks #capital #clear #everyone #function

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#because #concept #decided #down #failing

Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort. ↗

— Said Musa

#call #commercial #committed #effort #facilitate

Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#banks #capital #credit #credit rating #good

We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit. ↗

— John Redwood

#banking #banks #could #crisis #dangerous

A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #am #ancient #asked #assigned

On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#between #difference #europe #financial #go

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#again #bad #bailed #bailout #bank

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

#banks #continue #control #cost #create

The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#banks #before #bible #blood #filled