Henry Paulson
Henry Paulson
Henry "Hank" Merritt Paulson, Jr.is an American banker who served as the 74th Secretary of the Treasury. He had served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs, and is now a fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies and the chairman of the Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago, which he founded in 2011 to promote sustainable economic growth and a cleaner environment around the world, with an initial focus on the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 March 1946
CityPalm Beach, FL
CountryUnited States of America
Wit Capital has pioneered the integration of the Internet and the capital markets, and both investors and corporate issuers are benefiting as a result, ... We believe that Wit Capital is both an attractive investment for Goldman Sachs and an important part of our ongoing commitment to supporting the Internet and other new technologies in our business.
Today we affirm our commitment to lower Manhattan and the City of the New York, the financial capital of the world,
We are taking this step to secure permanent capital to grow; to share ownership broadly among our employees now and through future compensation; and to permit us to use publicly traded securities to finance strategic acquisitions that we may elect to make in the future.
Weakness in the capital markets, compounded by an erosion of corporate and investor confidence, has depressed activity in a number of our most important businesses, ... While we have seen some encouraging economic data of late, the current environment remains very challenging.
Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.
As I talk with the Chinese on currency, I encourage them to move much more quickly with opening up their capital markets to competition, because I don't believe the world is going to give them as much time as they would like.
We don't have a lot more time to deal with climate change, ... We need the right balance between regulation and market-based approaches.
We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.
Looking ahead, while we remain cautious about the near-term operating environment, we are confident in the strength of our franchise and the firm's longer-term growth prospects,
When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.
Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest.
While we know that we cannot expect to achieve these results every quarter, we continue to see attractive opportunities.
U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market.
If the financial system collapses, it's really, really hard to put it back together again.