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" I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper. "
Rick Santelli
Look
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Paper
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" The issue is, you're not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity. "
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Inflation
" A Treasury Secretary or a President should be out here not fighting S&P, not grabbing the other coach and slapping him around, taking the umpire behind the barn. He should be getting the team psyched to overcome. "
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Him
Overcome
Team
" There's hearings on everything. They're kabuki theater. "
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" We need to understand that in the end, if we're going to make a positive difference in the future, we can't have election cycles where one side, the middle and the right side, they talk trash. "
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Need
" Printing money - is it really the answer? ... If we just print a million dollars for every man, woman, and child in the country and handed it to them, won't that fix everything? Because in order to really look at printing - I like to take everything to the extreme. "
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Child
Look
" People with 401(k)s need to be very conservative. Picking bottoms should be for insiders and traders. "
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Need
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" I don't think that there is a beer summit in the cards for me at the White House. "
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Cards
House
" I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation. "
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Never
Go
Said
" Around 1999, CNBC offered me a full-time post, and I'm the happiest I've ever been. "
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Around
Been
Post
" A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level. "
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Democracy
Level
Much
" If you trade in paper, the notion of many who trade gold - the Ayn Randers - if the financial world comes to an end, they're going to have the gold. If you're playing in ETFs, you're going to have a piece of paper. "
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End
Trade
World
" We cannot collect enough taxes to catch up with spending. Do I know a solution? Not really. Do your politicians know a solution? Does our commander-in-chief offer a solution? Absolutely not. "
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Politicians
Enough
Know
" If being the lightning rod that started the Tea Party is what's written on my tombstone, I'll be very happy. "
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Happy
Tea
Started
" The president doesn't hold all the cards. The cards are evenly split up! "
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Cards
Hold
President
" You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all. "
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Stop
People
Need
" Look at the Weimar Republic and their hyperinflation in the early '20s. It didn't happen overnight. I've used the analogy, it's a lot like soybeans: you plant 'em, you wait. Conditions take some time. You need some sun; you need some water, but ultimately things start to grow, and are we in that phase or not? "
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Plant
Start
Sun
" I think it is a mistake for candidates, or once they get elected in office, to be dwelling too much on the topic of markets. "
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Mistake
Much
Too Much
" One thing that served me well with clients was that you back your winners and you back your losers. "
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Clients
Well
Back
" We are a republic, very inefficient. If you want a really efficient form of government, you have a king or a dictator. And in the end, you hope it's a benevolent one. But then you could get things done. There's no lurching; there's no bumps. That's the cornerstone of checks and balances. "
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End
Done
Government
" All the way back to 2010, the takeover of Congress, there is an unnerved part of the public that understands the history of Hillary Clinton. We've seen her for decades. They understand Donald Trump. There's no disclosure needed there. The sour grapes that we are experiencing isn't going to make a better tasting wine for the Democrats in the future. "
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Future
Better
Back
" There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser. "
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Compromise
Politics
Much
" I don't understand it and haven't understood in this world of technology: where every building has a camera, every ATM has a camera, why don't we have cameras on police officers? "
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Police
Camera
World
" I like free markets, but I do like fair markets. "
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Markets
Like
" How about we all stop paying our mortgages! It's a moral hazard. "
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About
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" Blame the Tea Party? Geez, no wonder Kerry did so well in an election. If it wasn't for the Tea Party, they would have passed the debt ceiling thumbs up; we would have been rated BBB. "
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Party
Wonder
Up
" I started trading around 1979, fresh out of college. In the early '90s, I started guesting for major news media. "
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College
Media
Early
" One of the greatest technicians of all time was a man named W. D. Gann (1878-1955). He had tremendous success predicting market moves much in advance. Legend has it that he occasionally sent notes to 'The Wall Street Journal', which accurately predicted tops and bottoms in grain markets months ahead of time. "
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Street
Time
Legend
" We now have the technology to pretty much hear everything. Can you imagine how our holiday dinners would be if every relative's entire conversations from birth to that moment in time was shown to every other relative? "
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Technology
Moment
You
" Think Apple, think the FBI. We are living 'Atlas Shrugged.' Why is it so important? Because I would hate for the country to have that rhetorical question: Where is John Galt, who is John Galt? John Galt is all of us. "
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Hate
Think
Apple