The E.U. needs Britain more than Britain needs the E.U. The London Stock Exchange is one of the most powerful financial centers in the world. Frankfurt will never replace it.
The City of London and Wall Street are not going to be great places to be in the next two or three decades. It's going to be the people who produce real goods in charge – the farmers and the miners.
What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet.
Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.
I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial centers, not only here but at home.
Wall Street has become the Western extension of Threadneedle and Lombard streets, and the wealthy classes of England and America have been brought into touch... .
Threadneedle and Lombard streets was the center of the London Financial District.
I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.
If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.