Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition.
What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration.
If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.
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.
In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.
But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.
In the financial markets I find it easy to predict what will happen and very difficult to predict when it will happen. I think that things were clear during the bubble as to what would happen eventually.
Freezing of accounts will not make any difference for Al-Qa'idah or other jihad groups. With the grace of Allah, al-Qa'idah has more than three such alternative financial systems, which are all separate and totally independent from each other. This system is operating under the patronage of those who love jihad. What to say of the United States, even the combined world cannot budge these people from their path.
I understand why many are still poor or struggling to make just a middle-income lifestyle. I'm a fiscal conservative, but I also have compassion for people who make financial mistakes.
The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.
I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in marriages and financial autonomy. And if the richest women don't have financial autonomy, what does it mean for the rest of us? That's all.
Once you get to your forties or fifties in this society, very few people haven't had at least one body blow - financial, bankruptcy, divorce, relationship disaster, addiction, trouble with a child, trouble with a parent. Most people take some blow.
The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.
We're looking out for the financial best interests of the up-and-comer. Everything connects to that.
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.
You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
Our lives are so dominated by financial concerns - paying the rent - and consumer choices - what sort of detergent to buy at Costco - that larger issues get subsumed into economic ones. Not just social justice, but basic issues of faith and meaning.
The crisis in Europe has affected the U. S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence, and pressuring U. S. financial markets and institutions.
It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.