It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion. – Evan Davis
The ‘boom-bust’ cycle is generated by monetary intervention in the market, specifically bank credit expansion to business. – Murray Rothbard
Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationalism’s roots are not so shallow. – Ehud Olmert
Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them – we are mortgaged up to the gills. – Nick Clegg
I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds. – Myron Scholes
A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy. – Ma Huateng
The first intifada, I was then commander of Central Command, commanding the West Bank, basically. And I know to what extent the first intifada was a popular uprising. – Ehud Barak
My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit. – Cliff Stearns
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don’t deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement. – Dan Quayle
At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat 94 percent of the West Bank; ten years later, Ehud Olmert offered Abbas 93.6 percent with a one-to-one land swap. – Elliott Abrams
The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks. – Murray Rothbard
The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account. – Charlaine Harris
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It’s a promissory note that doesn’t actually promise anything. It’s not backed by gold or silver. – P. J. O’Rourke
Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent. – Nina Easton
When I trade, I don’t have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it’s not his neck on the line. – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem. – Geraldo Rivera
Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that the region will not be a source of terrorism against Israel, as Gaza and South Lebanon became when Israel left there. – Elliott Abrams
Vegetables deplete soil. They’re extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals. – Dan Barber
Governments need to be authorized to provide ‘open bank assistance.’ The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at ‘avoiding’ this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system. – Paul Singer
In ‘A Poetics of Optics,’ Equi writes that ‘all images bank on alchemy.’ This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable. – Floyd Skloot
If I didn’t have to do it, I wouldn’t have done it. If I had a million bucks in the bank, I wouldn’t have done Playboy. – Claudia Christian
I wish I had millions in the bank; I’d never go broke. Let’s get that belt and get millions in the bank. – Donald Cerrone