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" So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay. "
Paul Singer
Family
People
Many
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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. "
Paul Singer
America
Family
Freedom
" Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses. "
Paul Singer
Possible
Much
Standardized
" 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. "
Paul Singer
Anger
Like
How
" 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
" 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
" Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft. "
Paul Singer
Will
Craft
Successful
" 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. "
Paul Singer
Impossible
Health
Financial
" 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
" Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank. "
Paul Singer
Anywhere
Extreme
Including
" Margin is a customer concept. "
Paul Singer
Customer
Concept
Margin
" Capital is kind of a banking concept. "
Paul Singer
Capital
Concept
Kind
" 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
" 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. "
Paul Singer
Relationships
Community
Stronger
" Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way. "
Paul Singer
Need
Way
Consistent
" I know people who are always freeriders and will never get into a fight. "
Paul Singer
Know
Always
Fight
" I've never let my guard down by saying, 'I don't need to be hedged.' "
Paul Singer
Never
Saying
Down
" 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
" 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. "
Paul Singer
Want
Currency
Gold
" What you have in legacy countries is long-term insolvency. "
Paul Singer
Legacy
Long-Term
You
" 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
" '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
" The building block of every community is family. "
Paul Singer
Community
Block
Building
" 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
" In government, the forces of risk-aversion and constant conflict serve to stultify and narrow the range of ideas up for debate. "
Paul Singer
Government
Up
Debate
" I'm rarely optimistic. "
Paul Singer
Rarely
Optimistic
" 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
" You have got to welcome and embrace complexity. "
Paul Singer
Complexity
You
Embrace
" Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system. "
Paul Singer
Today
Small
Financial
" 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
" 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. "
Paul Singer
Promises
Balance
Budget