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I'm rarely optimistic.
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Optimistic
Rarely
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Margin is a customer concept.
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Concept
Customer
Margin
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Capital is kind of a banking concept.
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Banking
Capital
Concept
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Stability is not the way of the world.
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Stability
Way
World
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There is no safe haven in today's markets.
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Safe
Safe Haven
Haven
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You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.
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Complexity
Embrace
Welcome
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The building block of every community is family.
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Block
Building
Community
Building Block
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Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.
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Earning
Earning Money
Resentment
Superior
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The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.
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Bottom
Bottom Line
Euro
Experiments
Lines
Failed
Experiment
Line
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What you have in legacy countries is long-term insolvency.
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Legacy
Long Term
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I've never let my guard down by saying, 'I don't need to be hedged.'
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Guard
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Obviously, the institution of marriage in America has utterly collapsed.
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Collapsed
Institution
Utterly
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Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.
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Dodd Frank
Levels
Extreme
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Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.
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America
Conversation
Race
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'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'
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Missing
Important Question
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Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.
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Crafts
Entrepreneurial
Essence
Successful
Craft
Funds
Hedge
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There's a feeling among some people that the Republican party is harsh on some things.
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Harsh
Republican Party
Among
Some People
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Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.
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Derivatives
Moved
Should
Trading
Possible
Standardized
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What would a loss of confidence in the dollar actually look like? Gold going absolutely nuts.
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Gold
Loss
Nuts
Dollar
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So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay.
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Close Friends
Family Members
Family Gay People
Conservatives
So Many People
Stark
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Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.
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Consistent
Typical
Fee
Funds
Hedge
Structures
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While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.
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Skepticism
Mr
Warrant
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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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Creating
Financial Markets
May
Modern Day
Reality
Appear
Realities
Reflects
Regulatory
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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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Conflict
Constant
Debate
Range
Forces
Narrow
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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
Constant
Defense
Individual
Individual Liberty
Liberty
Requires
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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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Financial
Financial System
Granted
Instruments
Sufficient
Complex
Entities
Leverage
Threaten
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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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Hard Work
Irrelevant
Judged
Merit
Workplace
Work Hard Work Hard
Aspects
Employees
Performance
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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.
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Barrier
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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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Currency
Gold
Alternative
Check
Exchange
Medium
Stood
Test
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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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.
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Lax
Lending
Monetary
Monetary Policy
Policy
Unlikely
Government Long People
Encouraged
Loans
Repay
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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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Available
Japan
Workers
Entrepreneurs
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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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Stronger
Communities
Gays
Lesbians
Recognized
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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.
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Zero
Credit
Thorough
Instrument
Ratings
Review
Undergo
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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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Financial
Impact
Impossible
Market
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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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Concern
Fixed
Income
Instruments
Citizen
Manager
Oh My God
Trillion
Whoa
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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.
Paul Singer / Businessman
East
London
Manhattan
Aspen
Check
Estate
Hampton
High-End
Leading
Prices
Real Estate
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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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Congo
Disingenuous
Oil
Shocking
Wealthy
World Bank
Time Money World
Applying
Bank
Debts
Paying
Same Time
Status
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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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Euro
Numbers
Zone
Account
Budget
Promises
Sheet
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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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Assistance
Avoiding
Dodd Frank
Prove
Authorized
Bank
Costly
Extremely
Governments
Ludicrous
Tactic
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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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Anger
Argentina
Borrowed
Creditors
Honored
Affecting
Attract
Capital
Obligations
Pose
Responsibly
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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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Government
Arbitrary
Law
Outcomes
Passion
Unfair
Power Government Law
Bad Idea
Governments
Passions
Resulting
Whims
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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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Bitcoin
Protect
Reason
Stand
Although
Babies
Governments
Test
Value
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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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Management
Starting Point
Bear
Estate
Investor
Markets
Real Estate
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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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Decline
Massive
Remains
Stupidity
Western
Western Civilization
Advantages
Current
Emerge
Great Deal
Solved
Swiftly
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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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Authority
Bankruptcy
Code
Derivatives
Dodd Frank
Orderly
Replaced
Timely
Amendment
Books
Liquidation
Operate
Payments
Prescribed
Prevent
Provisions
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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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Derivatives
Investment
Banks
Institution
Marked
Multilateral
Owns
Properly
Trades
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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 / Businessman
Bankers
Bother
Burden
Disparity
Europe
Income
Inequality
Our Time
Political Leaders
Wealth
Time Money Political
Drive
Asset
Bond
Central
Consider
Entire
Policies
Prices
Print Money
Stock
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The recent trading environment has felt something like walking into a place and having a sense that something is wrong and dangerous but not knowing exactly what will happen or when. “QE Infinity” has so distorted the prices of stocks and bonds that nobody can possibly determine what the investing landscape would look like, or what the condition of the economy and financial system would be, in the absence of Fed bond-buying.
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Knowing
Looks
Would Be
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