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From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.
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I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
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Buying a home today is a complex process, but that in no way excuses home buyers from their obligation for due diligence.
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I didn't get the charm gene.
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We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
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In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.
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We've all got to work to restore business confidence...but I believe that longer term we may look at Enron as being a positive as opposed to a negative, ... It may lead to greater transparency.
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I see the underlying economy as being very healthy.
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An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention.
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It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.
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When our markets work, people throughout our economy benefit - Americans seeking to buy a car or buy a home, families borrowing to pay for college, innovators borrowing on the strength of a good idea for a new product or technology, and businesses financing investments that create new jobs.
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It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.
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Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.
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When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.
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The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.
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As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.
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During the third quarter, we saw increasing activity levels across all of our major businesses and believe overall market conditions support a generally optimistic outlook.
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I've been through periods of stress, turbulence in the market for over the course of my career, various times, and never in any of those other periods have we had the advantage of a strong economy underpinning the markets.
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Investment banks are increasingly using their own balance sheets to extend credit to clients, to assume market risk on their behalf and sometimes to co-invest alongside them. Investment banking serves as the main initial point of contact with all of Goldman Sachs for our clients.
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The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.
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Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest.
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This action also will meet a fundamental objective of the partners -- to share ownership benefits and responsibilities more broadly among all of the firm's employees.
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I've never been antiregulation. I've always believed that raw, unregulated capitalism doesn't work.
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Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.
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