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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. "
Paul Singer
Performance
Hard Work
Employees
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I'm rarely optimistic. "
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" Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft. "
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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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" Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state. "
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American
Society
Liberty
" 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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" 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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" There's a feeling among some people that the Republican party is harsh on some things. "
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Party
People
Feeling
" Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed. "
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Institution
America
Marriage
" 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
" 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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Special
Time
World
" What would a loss of confidence in the dollar actually look like? Gold going absolutely nuts. "
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Like
Nuts
Look
" Credit ratings and risk weightings must undergo a thorough process of review and revision. No security or instrument on the planet should have a zero risk weighting. "
Paul Singer
Credit
Process
Review
" I know people who are always freeriders and will never get into a fight. "
Paul Singer
Know
Always
Fight
" 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
" Stability is not the way of the world. "
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Stability
World
Way
" You have got to welcome and embrace complexity. "
Paul Singer
Complexity
You
Embrace
" 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. "
Paul Singer
America
Family
Freedom
" There is no safe haven in today's markets. "
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Markets
Haven
Today
" The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment. "
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Bottom Line
Line
Bottom
" The building block of every community is family. "
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Community
Block
Building
" 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
" 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
" 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
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Time