economic downturn, Financial Crisis, financial institution lay-offs, Wall Street
"Despite imperfections and mixed motives, any effort to improve the economic well-being of Filipinos is fundamentally good."
--Mac
"“We have a moral obligation to use our prosperity at this moment, especially to uplift communities in poverty."
--Alan Greenspan
"A fiduciary mindset is simply a mindset that says my clients come before I do. Service to others before service to self."
--John Bogle
"Markets cannot be sustained if they do not ensure human well-being."
--Koffi Annan, Secretary General, United Nations
"Capitalism is not an amoral system based on selfishness, greed and exploitation. It is a moral system based on a biblical ethic."
--Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Britain
"Wisdom cries aloud in the streets. In the marketplace, she raises her voice."
--Proverbs 1:20
"Efficient Markets Hypothesis: One of the most remarkable errors in the history of economic thought."
--Robert J. Shiller: How Animal Spirits Drive the Economy
"The ability to generate competitive returns is all about a sensible methodology and the systematic execution of that methodology. Credentials, so essential to academia, mean nothing.”
Mac