Financial Markets Quotes

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Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.

The Federal Reserve has a responsibility to ensure the safety and soundness of financial institutions and to contain systemic risks in financial markets.

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

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.

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.

The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.

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

One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow.

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.

Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

Trillions of dollars every day are being exchanged around the world in all of the financial markets.

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.

Sometimes it is my impression that most politicians are still not aware of being under the control of the financial markets and are even governed by them.

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

It seems to me that at least as far as the financial markets are concerned, there is increasing evidence against rational expectations, even at the macro level.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

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.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.

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.

The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands.

Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.

Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.

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

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?

Financial illiteracy is like being in a rain storm and trying to jump in between the raindrops... eventually it all catches you at the same time.