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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions... Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.

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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.

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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.

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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

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If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.

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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

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I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

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If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.

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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

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