Famous Quotes & Sayings

What we need is open-minded management in the banks we buy into or cooperate with.

There is a risk that if China liberalizes the foreign exchange system when the banks need to be recapitalized, there could be trauma in the system. My impression is that the Chinese are going to be as gradual as they can.

I am quite sure that in 100 years there will be much fewer currencies and central banks in the world.

Central banks rarely intervene unilaterally, and when they do, it's a sign of weakness.

Central banks continue to be guided by macroeconomic models that relate to an economy that no longer exists.

Central banks around the world are on the horns of the dilemma of experiencing weak growth and rising inflation, which have contradictory implications for rates.

Central banks are raising interest rates, and that's risky for stocks. Expectations for earnings growth are too high.

Capital levels are extremely high. Banks will be in good shape.

But that cycle is over. The banks are going to get squeezed.

Business conditions at the banks will not be swayed by the latent loss.

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Chinese banks may want to buy yen and see if they can get a good return on shares in Japan.

Multinational/trust banks will probably broadly deliver on Wall Street estimates. However, we expect the quality of earnings to be poor as securities gains and other unusual items will commonly be used to offset weak trading results.

Now the game has changed and there's a greater risk of capital loss. Banks won't take as many chances now.

James Smith

If banks needed to borrow money, no problem, all the normal rules were suspended.

Matt Cullen

I don't think it's anything we'll store away in our memory banks for any reason. I think that when you start a playoff series, it's like starting fresh. It's seven games for everything.

I have never believed that central banks should have rigid inflation targeting. That is not a good thing to stabilize. There is nothing in economic theory to back this.

I feel very comfortable with where we are with the Hudson United conversion that we could look at banks right now.

Alan Greenspan

I find it difficult to believe, for example, that the crises that arose in Thailand and Korea would have been nearly so virulent had their central banks published data prior to the crises on net reserves instead of the not very informative gross reserve positions only,

I do not think the ministry will actually interfere in he markets. But other central banks such as Korea's may do so, helping the dollar rebound.

We've seen a dramatic increase, particularly at small banks. Larger banks are putting more effort on stopping these guys, so where do they go? Smaller institutions." ()

We need banks and financiers and entrepreneurs to take risks because that's how economies grow over time.

Elizabeth Warren

Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures.

Stephen Stills

After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It's doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

The credit card processors and banks are reaping enormous profits right now. That's right out of the dealer's profit.

It brings the value of your farm a lot higher, so the banks are happy -- they know they can go out and sell your land to cover your debt now.

Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.

Zhou Shengxian

Groundwater near both banks of the river is in accordance with national standards and it's safe to drink.

David Harris

There are so many changes... with mergers, buyouts, new banks in the market, banks branching into Wichita,

Gustavo Franco had a good relationship with international banks and this change is very traumatic. Everything now is going to be related to Fernando Henrique (Cardoso)'s stance and that of Congress.

Gold is hoarded by institutions and banks even while they say it has no monetary value, which means they are talking out of both sides of their mouths.

Historically, big banks are a mirror from a growth perspective of the economies in which they are operating.