#wall street

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it. ↗

— Joe Biden

#always #back #been #capital #casino

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists. ↗

— Jayson Blair

#any #experience #factory #i #i think

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

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

— Andrew Cuomo

#excess #people #rightfully #street #upset

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

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

— David Korten

#fabric #need #removed #sees #social

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#company #fact #funny #in fact #men

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands. ↗

— Cornel West

#greed #impossible #into #street #translate