| “Riches are of value only when they enrich not just some communities, but all. As we have discovered to our cost, the problem of unbridled free markets in an unsupervised marketplace is that they can reduce all relationships to transactions, all motivations to self-interest, all sense of value to consumer choice and all sense of worth to a price tag.” Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, "English-Speaking Capitalism on Trial", The New York Times (March 29, 2009, p. 4).
“A year into the credit crisis...trust remains a rare commodity in the banking world. It will take years, not months, to restore that crucial ingredient – particularly given that so many of the assumptions underlying 21st-century finance have turned out to be so dangerously wrong.”
Gillian Tett in the Financial Times (August 4, 2008)
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