Buy! Sell! Hurry hard!
"It's better than that thing where they have eight people in a box screaming at each other." - The New York Times gets Jake Siewert, counselor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, to explain Wall Street's love affair with CNBC's Olympic curling coverage.
What's Godwin's Law in Greek?
"They [the Nazis]took away the Greek gold that was in the Bank of Greece." - Amid his country's sovereign debt crisis, Greek Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos this week accused Germany of failing to compensate Greece for Nazi occupation during World War II.
That'll fix it
"Meanwhile, our domestic investors have run away." - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told four power tycoons this week that their companies would face hefty fines if they didn't invest sufficiently in the energy sector.
No paper chase here
"All paper money is suspect these days." - Financier Jim Rogers was none too happy this week when some negative remarks on the British pound were attributed to him, but he's not exactly in love with any currency you have to print right now.
The paradox of toil
"Don't work too hard, or you'll screw up the economy." - Paul Kedrosky cuts right to the heart of some serious research done by The Federal Reserve Bank of New York to reveal a long hidden truth: Slackers are just what the economy has always needed.