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" I'm rarely optimistic. "
Paul Singer
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" What you have in legacy countries is long-term insolvency. "
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" The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment. "
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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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" I know people who are always freeriders and will never get into a fight. "
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" The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe. "
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" The building block of every community is family. "
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" The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as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. "
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" 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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" Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed. "
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" Margin is a customer concept. "
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" You have got to welcome and embrace complexity. "
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" Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system. "
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" 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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" 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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" Capital is kind of a banking concept. "
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Kind
" In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate. "
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Up
Debate
" Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank. "
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" 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. "
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See
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" 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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" What would a loss of confidence in the dollar actually look like? Gold going absolutely nuts. "
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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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Impossible
Health
Financial
" 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
" Resentment is not morally superior to earning money. "
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Superior
Resentment
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" Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state. "
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Society
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" Stability is not the way of the world. "
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Stability
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Way
" '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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" A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the current path. But these problems can be solved - and swiftly - if the right leaders emerge. "
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Right
" 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. "
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" There's a feeling among some people that the Republican party is harsh on some things. "
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