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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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" America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family. "

" While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft. "

" In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance. "

" Margin is a customer concept. "

" '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. "

" Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art prices, to see what the leading edge of hyperinflation could look like. "

" 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. "

" I'm rarely optimistic. "

" 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. "

" You have got to welcome and embrace complexity. "

" Stability is not the way of the world. "

" 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. "

" Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system. "

" Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way. "

" Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed. "

" What would a loss of confidence in the dollar actually look like? Gold going absolutely nuts. "

" There is no safe haven in today's markets. "

" I know people who are always freeriders and will never get into a fight. "

" So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay. "

" Resentment is not morally superior to earning money. "

" 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. "

" The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank. "

" 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. "

" The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe. "