QUOTES OF THE DAY

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”

Mark Twain

“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?”

John Maynard Keynes

“Central Bankers are driving us to Hell in a vehicle We are paying the installments on”

Dean Cavanagh

“And the banks – hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created – are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”

Richard Joseph Durbin

“3 people get stranded on a remote Island

A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker

All they have to eat is a box of 10 Mars bars

The Banker says “Because of my expertise in asset management, I”ll look after our resources”

The other 2 agree

So the Banker opens the box, gobbles down 9 of the Mars bars and hands the last one to the Daily Mail reader

He then says ” I’d keep an eye on that Asylum seeker, he’s after your Mars Bar”

Christopher Brookmyre, When the Devil Drives