Peer Steinbruck Quotes

If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.

The consumer is going through a period around the world of uncertainty - whether geopolitical uncertainty, economic uncertainty - and that makes them a little nervous as well.

Every day, every week without taking decisions is a problem for us, is a very wrong message for the markets and increases the lack of credibility of our economies.

As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.

That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death.

Everyone is exposed to economic risks of some kind.

Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.

No one has any idea what's next... the uncertainty of the business climate in America is frightening, frightening to everybody, and it's delaying the recovery.

I don’t care a damn about stocks and bonds, but I don’t want to see them go down the first day I am President.

There will be no repetition of the break yesterday …. I have no fear of another comparable decline.

I cannot help but raise a dissenting voice to statements that we are living in a fool's paradise, and that prosperity in this country must necessarily diminish and recede in the near future

Most important downside risks to the economy are political

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market

If you have faith in our leaders of commerce, don't buy gold. If you do not have faith in them, maybe you should buy gold or silver.

Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.

Brexit is the other face of the refugee crisis - tensions that lead to stasis, external risks that lead to asymmetric shocks.

Business people across the world are seeing the possibility of Donald Trump being president, and this is a big thing that I believe is inspiring people to put money here in America instead of Germany or other places where we have lot of things going on.

The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.

Don't leave criticism of the E.U. to those who hate it.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

Whether we vote to leave or remain, there are risks to our future; there are challenges in the global economy.

Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.

Markets don't like instability, investors shy away from uncertainty, and consumer confidence goes down in difficult times.

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.