#wall street

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry. ↗

— David Lynch

#delivering #doing #i #i love #jobs

Wall Street, the banks, and corporate America, has been able to call the shots here. They control our members of Congress and they get what they want. ↗

— Michael Moore

#america #banks #been #call #congress

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition. ↗

— Sumner Redstone

#competition #even #journal #much #murdoch

The Fed chairmanship is not the kind of job where you want to surprise everyone with your choice of a total unknown. You don't want to surprise Wall Street. ↗

— David Jones

#everyone #fed #job #kind #our choice

Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital. ↗

— Howard Dean

#allocating #capital #doing #even #i

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#brokers #clerks #colleges #friends #live

Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning. ↗

— Maria Cantwell

#keep #roulette #schemes #street #too

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

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#also #brushing #dedicated #entire #genre

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#believe #borrowers #conservatism #conservatives #destroyed