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The best restraint is old-fashioned market discipline, in which financial traders know that they, personally, will lose a ton of money if they take risky bets that don't pan out.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Best Bets Discipline Financial Know Lose Market Money Old-Fashioned Out Pan Personally Restraint Risky Take Ton Which Will

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Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That's the idea behind the best of the Obama administration's reform proposals: If banks issue securities backed by mortgages, say, then require them to hold some of that paper so that they will bear some of the losses.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Administration Backed Banks Bear Behind Best Financial Hold Idea Industry Issue Losses Make Mistakes Mortgages Obama Paper Pay Proposals Reform Require Say Securities Some Them Then Will

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The revival of the U.S. financial system after the crash of 2008 is arguably the Obama administration's biggest domestic policy success.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Administration After Arguably Biggest Crash Domestic Financial Financial System Obama Policy Revival Success System

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Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Contest Economic Economic Policy Financial Financial Markets Making Markets Panic Policy Popularity

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When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Credit Doing Financial Him Historians Likely Look Needed Obama Politically Presidency Things Unpopular Were

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The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.

~David Malpass

Topics: Assumption Bankruptcy Bear Biggest Biggest Mistake Brothers Could Epidemic Financial Had Job Led Losses Mistake Mistakes Panic Resolve Series Single Washington Without Would

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The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems.

~David Malpass

Topics: Bigger Champions Clear Commitment Derivatives Encourages Fed Financial Fix Growth Inflation Instead Interest Interest Rates Layers Make Meanwhile Momentum Money More Powerful Problems Rates Reduce Regulation Should Stable Swings Trading Underlying Unstable Washington

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If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest financial company in the world.

~David O. Sacks

Topics: Allowed Become Company Could Destiny Financial Largest Make Moves Paypal Pursue World You

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In all of our efforts, we continue to emphasize the importance of inclusivity and transparency on the part of the Afghan government and leadership, especially in linking nascent local governing institutions to the decision-making and financial resources in Kabul.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Afghan Continue Decision-Making Efforts Emphasize Financial Governing Government Importance Institutions Leadership Linking Local Our Part Resources Transparency

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There's a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: 'Aha! It was because he didn't share. It was the spirits who brought him down.'

~David Quammen

Topics: Because Becomes Belief Brought Cultures Dies Does Down Experiences Fever Financial Fortune Good Good Fortune He Him Ill Mysterious People Person Say Share Some Spirits Tend Terms Who

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