This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them

- Martin Mayer

Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

- Martin Mayer

Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sa…

- Martin Mayer

People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.

- Martin Mayer

Like sex drives, card tricks, and the weather, computers tend to be discussed in terms of results rather than processes, which makes them rather scar…

- Martin Mayer