“If you go back to the late '50s, there really was nothing called "acad...” — Eugene Fama Quote

“If you go back to the late '50s, there really was nothing called "academic finance." Well, there was something being taught in business schools as finance, but it really had no strong research underpinnings.”

“People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.”

“The investors who generate big returns over five years, the guys they write books about, are supposed to keep winning, right? Well, they don't.”

“Britain is the epicentre of financial fraud. Most major players outsource their fraud here because London is the unregulated cesspit of global finance.”

“As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.”

“I grew up with very much an appreciation of the creative side of things, but always knowing how much Wall Street, finance and economics really powered everything else, whether it's politics or the art world.”