Wall Street

“No man can control Wall Street. Wall Street is like the ocean. No man can govern it. It is too vast. Wall Street is full of eddies and currents. The thing to do is to watch them, to exercise a little common sense, and … to come out on top.”

“The essential is the object. Error consists in forgetting that grain, cotton, wool are vital objects and in being interested in them only because of their value in gold, their speculative value. The economic purpose is not ‘to make millionaires out of gasoline’ but to distribute gasoline according to demand and need. Wall street is an abstraction.”

“The business model of Wall Street is fraud. In my view, there is no better example than the recently-exposed illegal behavior at .”

“Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.”

“The fall of Wall Street is for market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was for communism.”

“Holding the citizens of Wall Street to the standards of honesty which govern everyone else is, if one thinks about it, the very opposite of class warfare.”