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  • Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

    "Why We Must Unite Against The Unprincipled Speculators". www.businessinsider.com. March 8, 2010.
  • Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.

    "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.
  • The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

    Play   Roles   Financial  
  • The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

  • It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse.

    First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009
  • In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

    Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.23, Prabhat Prakashan
  • Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

    Integrity   Drug   Secret  
  • The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

    "My Interview with George Soros: End of Financial Crisis Could Be in Sight". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2008.
  • In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.

    "Fed chief sparks US rally" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2000.
  • As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

    Past   Play   Important  
  • I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect.

    George Soros (2009). “The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets”, p.7, Hachette UK
  • Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

    "A French Manifesto to Unite Occupy Wall Street" by William D. Cohan, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.
  • 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.

    Ideas   Way   Different  
  • To achieve long-term success over many financial market and economic cycles, observing a few rules is not enough. Too many things change too quickly in the investment world for that approach to succeed. It is necessary instead to understand the rationale behind the rules in order to appreciate why they work when they do and don't when they don't.

    Order   Long   Appreciate  
  • The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

    People   Abnormal   May  
  • The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

    Dark   Dawn   Transition  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • It is vital for officials and regulators to have input from people within our businesses who understand the intricacies of how financial markets operate and the consequences of certain policy decisions.

    People   Decision   Input  
  • One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.

    Henry Paulson's Speech on the "Blueprint for Regulatory Reform", www.cnbc.com. March 31, 2008.
  • Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

    "Alibaba’s Jack Ma: Make Up Your Mind, Yahoo". Interview with Peter Kafka, allthingsd.com. October 19, 2011.
  • I think what is happening is I think first of all there is confidence in the U.K. economy. We're in a German rather than a Greek position in international financial markets, which is very positive and keeps our debt service costs down, and we're also beginning to see real evidence of rebalancing.

    Real   Thinking   Greek  
  • Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The truth is, successful investing is a kind of alchemy.

    George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons
  • Workers are on the streets today with a clear message to Europe's leaders. There is a great danger that workers are going to pay the price for the reckless speculation that took place in financial markets.

  • Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now, as we work off some of the past excesses. But the American people can remain confident in the soundness and the resilience of our financial system.

    "Five Years Later, Lehman Brothers Fall Still Stings". "All Things Considered" with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.
  • While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.

    Believe   Needs   Done  
  • And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

    Art   Investing   Matter  
  • In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

    People   Peaceful   Ruins  
  • The insurance companies do not refer to the key policy rate when they send their statements. We can only control that rate. Long-term interest rates are determined largely by global financial markets.

    Keys   Long   Determined  
    "Draghi Defends Euro Rescue Policies". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. January 02, 2014.
  • But in the financial markets, without proper institutional rules, there's the law of the jungle - because there's greed! There's nothing wrong with greed, per se. It's not that people are more greedy now than they were 20 years ago. But greed has to be tempered, first, by fear of losses. So if you bail people out, there's less fear. And second, b prudential regulation and supervision to avoid certain excesses.

    Loss   Years   Law  
  • Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life is endangering our open and democratic society. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

    Believe   Enemy   Society  
    "The Capitalist Threat". www.theatlantic.com. February 1997.
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