The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street executives for the massive fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.
Glenn Greenwald
FinancialWallCrisisStreetFraud
Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start-ups, early stage companies, and family-owned businesses. In response, business owners would be forced to either lay off workers or raise prices to offset the rise in labor costs.
Fabrizio Moreira
BusinessFinancialEarlyRiseLabor
Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.
John Engler
ThinkFinancialProfessionalismGiven
Blockchain technology has such a wide range of transformational use cases, from recreating the plumbing of Wall Street to creating financial sovereignty in the farthest regions of the world.
Perianne Boring
TechnologyWorldFinancialWall
I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.
James Altucher
BusinessFinancialLovedInternet
As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.
Moby
MusicPeopleFinancialMoreJust
The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal.
Ginni Rometty
TechnologyTalentAmazingFinancial
James Goldsmith is important because he used the power of the markets to break up the cosy patrician elite that ran Britain and its industries in the 1950s and '60s. In the process, Goldsmith helped transfer power in this country away from politics and towards the markets and the financial sector.
Adam Curtis
PowerPoliticsFinancialProcessUp
If I could only follow one person on Twitter, it would be Heidi Moore. She's a financial journalist at NPR's Marketplace.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
FinancialPersonSheFollowWould
Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.
Paul Tudor Jones
FinancialIntellectualWillAlways
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.
James Buchan
TodayHistoryFinancialDevilNever
Globalisation means that for a high-wage, developed economy like Britain's to compete we need to focus our efforts on the highly skilled, added-value sectors such as advanced manufacturing, creative industries, engineering and even financial services.
Lucy Powell
FocusCreativeFinancialEngineering
Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.
Gerard Arpey
OpportunityTodayFinancialMomentum
Gay marriage passed in New York because four Republican legislators crossed party lines. They did it in part because they had true bipartisan financial support.
Campbell Brown
MarriageNew YorkSupportFinancial
The list of companies that have added their own financial metrics is not a savory group.
Andrew Mason
FinancialGroupOwnListCompanies
I voted against H.R. 4293, the Stress Test Improvement Act of 2017, which would modify the regulatory oversight of certain financial institutions in a way that is likely to expose our economy to greater risk.
Seth Moulton
ImprovementStressFinancialTest
Especially where financial matters are concerned, when it comes to dissolving a marriage, any dissembling at all is strictly against the law - on penalty of perjury. You need to disclose fully and factually, which is precisely what the discovery process is all about.
Laura Wasser
MarriageLawFinancialProcessYou
The Attorney General must identify threats to Illinoisans' financial security and take action to protect people.
Lisa Madigan
PeopleActionFinancialSecurity
The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios... The idea that you can actually predict what's going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.
George Soros
FinanceLookingFinancialYouWay
It is imperative that we make consumers more aware of the long-term effects of their financial decisions, particularly in managing their credit card debt, so that they can avoid financial pitfalls that may lead to bankruptcy.
Daniel Akaka
FinancialDecisionsCreditDebtMore
I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.
Maxine Waters
MeFinancialWallCongressStreet
Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then we are not going to see the kind of stability or the capacity to drive genuine, income-led growth as opposed to debt-fuelled, speculative behaviour.
Sharan Burrow
GrowthDriveFinancialYouGenuine
Dan Loeb has become a billionaire searching out value in financial markets.
Kayla Tausche
ValueFinancialBecomeSearchingOut
Numerous studies, and my own experience as a serial entrepreneur, have proven that companies with a diverse management team provide greater financial returns to investors.
Jay Samit
ExperienceTeamManagementFinancial
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