I mean, I’m very serious with my kids about them comprehending the intricacies of global finance.
Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
Without any formal personal finance instruction in our high school or college curricula, many college seniors who graduate in the red will continue to make common financial mistakes that only exacerbate their debt burdens.
In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication.
It’s much more straightforward to get finance when you have an Oscar.
Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that?
American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.
Back when ‘social’ had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.
How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord’s law of finance.
If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit – and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.
Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.
If you’re a teenager in Palo Alto launching an app, you know from the outset how you plan to finance your business.
One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to finance.
To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth.
African runners regularly work out in the United States and Europe, and the International Olympic Committee sends some of the cash from the Games to Olympic committees in poor nations, which use the money to finance their own programs.
Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.
My most difficult class at Harvard Business School would have to be finance.
Let’s not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.
If you look on Amazon – if you do a search for personal finance, there are literally 20,000 books written on personal finance, and there’s no real reason for it. I mean, personal finance is pretty simple.
Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future – bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.
Prior to SunRun, I was headed toward a career in venture capital and then realized I wanted to apply my knowledge of finance more directly to helping change the world.
As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959.
Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn’t need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.
