Boom And Bust Quotes

“Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

“John Law’s life and his Mississippi Scheme had followed an identical arc of trajectory. Law had been both the maker and breaker of the Mississippi Scheme just as the Mississippi Scheme had been both the maker and breaker of Law.”
― Gavin John Adams, John Law: The Lauriston Lecture and Collected Writings

“The politicians looked after the mandarins. The mandarins looked after the central bankers and the regulators. (The governor of the Central Bank was paid more in 2008 than the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, as was the chief executive of the Financial Regulator.) The Central Bankers looked after the bankers. The bankers looked after IBEC. And IBEC looked after the government. The circle of oligarchs was watertight.”
― Shane Ross