Anat Admati Quotes

#1. Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

Anat R. Admati

#2. As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec, the dried-up seeds and sagging tubers that my girl-friends would become. But, now that it was time for buds to blossom, what did that matter?

Marcel Proust

#3. Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

Andy Goldsworthy

#4. No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with ... The existence of banks with single digit amounts of equity is a completely unhealthy existence
that is not only a risk for the banks, but for all of us.

Anat R. Admati

#5. Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

Anat R. Admati

#6. Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

Anat R. Admati

#7. I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

Susan Sontag

#8. The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

Anat R. Admati

#9. The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

Daniel Handler

#10. Lending dollars to the U.S. government is essentially riskless because the U.S. government can always pay such debts. If necessary, the Federal Reserve can print dollars to pay the debt.

Anat Admati

#11. The best hand always believes in playing by the rules.

Mason Cooley