#wall street

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

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#excess #people #rightfully #street #upset

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

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

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#covering #descended #equal #number #party

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

Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#capital #capitalism #come #discrimination #down

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

#i #i can #papers #read #street

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

— David Korten

#fabric #need #removed #sees #social