#wall street

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season. ↗

— Evan Davis

#american #another #bad #black #christmas

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

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

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#becoming #been #between #comes #destructive

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. ↗

— David Korten

#fabric #need #removed #sees #social

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#disagrees #easy #impatience #inspiration #movement

When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work? ↗

— Artur Davis

#blast #children #genius #glorified #hear

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

Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street. ↗

— Stephanie Cutter

#bail #burden #carry #decade #deregulated