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" 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. "
Paul Singer
Long
True
Policy
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" '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. "
Paul Singer
Own
Time
Bond
" 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
" 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
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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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Government
Up
Debate
" Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed. "
Paul Singer
Institution
America
Marriage
" 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
" 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. "
Paul Singer
Way
Safe
People
" Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank. "
Paul Singer
Anywhere
Extreme
Including
" The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would operate to prevent cross-default provisions from impacting derivatives books so long as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
" Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear. "
Paul Singer
System
Financial
Difficult
" 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. "
Paul Singer
Real
See
Real Estate
" 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. "
Paul Singer
Time
Management
Money
" So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay. "
Paul Singer
Family
People
Many
" Capital is kind of a banking concept. "
Paul Singer
Capital
Concept
Kind
" 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. "
Paul Singer
Bank
Will
System
" What would a loss of confidence in the dollar actually look like? Gold going absolutely nuts. "
Paul Singer
Like
Nuts
Look
" 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? "
Paul Singer
People
Manager
Own
" Stability is not the way of the world. "
Paul Singer
Stability
World
Way
" While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake. "
Paul Singer
Ideas
Mistake
Conservative
" Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses. "
Paul Singer
Possible
Much
Standardized
" 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. "
Paul Singer
Path
Stupidity
Right
" 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. "
Paul Singer
Money
Value
Time
" The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment. "
Paul Singer
Bottom Line
Line
Bottom
" 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
" Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft. "
Paul Singer
Will
Craft
Successful
" Margin is a customer concept. "
Paul Singer
Customer
Concept
Margin
" 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
" The world, in terms of choices available to educated, ambitious workers and entrepreneurs, is way bigger than just the United States, Japan and Europe. "
Paul Singer
Bigger
Choices
Educated
" What you have in legacy countries is long-term insolvency. "
Paul Singer
Legacy
Long-Term
You