Even if Koch Industries had a financial interest in the Keystone XL pipeline, what possibly could be wrong with that? Perhaps more important, under what circumstances would such an interest be worthy of a congressional inquisition?
Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.
The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.
When you have an attorney giving you advice, it would be nice to know what their financial relationship is to the advice.
Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.
The Great Recession rocked the foundation of every financial institution, including Johnson Bank. We were struggling, and it was happening under my watch.
In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching.
I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.
In the family pattern, men support boys and women support girls, and because women have far fewer financial resources, there is less money to invest in girls.
For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.
Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.
Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.
A dollar vigilante is a free market individual who protests the government monopoly and financial policies, such as fractional reserve banking and unbacked fiat currencies, by selling those same fiat currencies in favor of other assets, including gold and precious metals.
BitCoin is actually an exploit against network complexity. Not financial networks, or computer networks, or social networks. Networks themselves.
Historically, philanthropy has been something that you do when you turn 65, and you are retired, and you have spent your life accumulating your financial resources, and now you finally have time to do it. But because of the Internet revolution, that in turn revolutionized economic growth and wealth generation.
Initially, I thought that Ethereum was a thing that would be used for people to write simple financial scripts. As it turns out, people are writing stuff like Augur on top of it.
A lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. A lot of people in the financial system did a lot of damage without intending to.
I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Vladimir Putin's Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we've got to face up to that fact.
Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.
When you lose control of risk at a financial institution, you do a variety of unfortunate credit extensions or purchases - and all of a sudden, you've blown up your business.
The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.
The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.
The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Eligibility for a temple recommend is not based on financial worth. That has nothing whatever to do with it. It is based on consistent personal behavior, on the goodness of one's life. It is not concerned with money matters, but rather with things of eternity.
In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten into financial trouble reorganize itself. A big part of the selling point on this bankruptcy law was, 'It will preserve jobs.'
Over time, low rates can put pressure on the business models of financial institutions.
The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide.
The financial people, who lead such dreary lives, believe what they read and see on television.
Let's bear down on what we can do together: keeping Tennessee a state with a strong financial condition, helping Tennessee be the number one location in the Southeast for higher-quality jobs. And making certain that all Tennesseans, regardless of their circumstances, have an opportunity for higher-quality education.