#markets

In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe. ↗

— Robert C. Solomon

#europe #markets #more #much #securities

I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs. ↗

— George Soros

#because #economy #global #global markets #i

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected. ↗

— George Soros

#constantly #flux #made #markets #money

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't under-estimate the value of that, but they're not designed to take care of social needs. ↗

— George Soros

#allow #care #designed #great #i

The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market. ↗

— George Soros

#contradicts #different #financial #financial markets #generally

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#amount #break #competition #deep #enforcement

When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#around #both #brussels #chaotic #concern

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#capital #comfortable #crashes #faster #get

It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#asian #day #economy #events #every

Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#agree #also #better #both #democrats