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" Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way. "
Paul Singer
Need
Way
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" If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands of years as a store of value and medium of exchange. "
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" It is impossible to understand the financial health of big financial institutions and their potential impact on the market. They don't even understand it themselves. "
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" The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous. "
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" In both the U.S. and Europe, the budget and balance sheet numbers do not work. When 'off-balance sheet' promises are taken into account, the U.S. and most countries of the Euro zone are insolvent. "
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" The building block of every community is family. "
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Block
Building
" So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay. "
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People
Many
" What would a loss of confidence in the dollar actually look like? Gold going absolutely nuts. "
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" My concern as a citizen and as a money manager is, Oh my God, at what point does a 'whoa' moment happen to these people who own $30 trillion fixed income instruments? "
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Manager
Own
" You have got to welcome and embrace complexity. "
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You
Embrace
" There's a feeling among some people that the Republican party is harsh on some things. "
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People
Feeling
" There is no safe haven in today's markets. "
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Markets
Haven
Today
" What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including end-users, including every institution, including sovereigns and multilateral institutions, then the system would be safe - if people were margined the way customers of investment banks are margined. "
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Way
Safe
People
" It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so. "
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Law
Create
Bad
" The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as mark-to-market payments are being made in a timely fashion. "
Paul Singer
Authority
Books
Fashion
" Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system. "
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Bank
Will
System
" Stability is not the way of the world. "
Paul Singer
Stability
World
Way
" It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending to people who were unlikely to repay their loans. "
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Long
True
Policy
" What you have in legacy countries is long-term insolvency. "
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Legacy
Long-Term
You
" Capital is kind of a banking concept. "
Paul Singer
Capital
Concept
Kind
" The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. "
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Time
Management
Money
" In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance. "
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Performance
Hard Work
Employees
" Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract - if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations. "
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Anger
Like
How
" 'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider that their own policies, which put the entire burden on central bankers to print money and drive up stock, bond and other asset prices, are actually exacerbating income and wealth disparity. "
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Own
Time
Bond
" The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment. "
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Bottom Line
Line
Bottom
" Securing for gays and lesbians the basic right to have their relationships and families recognized as part of a community makes all of our communities stronger. "
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Relationships
Community
Stronger
" Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system. "
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Today
Small
Financial
" Resentment is not morally superior to earning money. "
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Superior
Resentment
Earning
" Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear. "
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System
Financial
Difficult
" There is no more reason to believe that Bitcoin will stand the test of time than that governments will protect the value of government-created money, although Bitcoin is newer, and we always look at babies with hope. "
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Money
Value
Time
" I know people who are always freeriders and will never get into a fight. "
Paul Singer
Know
Always
Fight