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I don't see the value in Tesla.
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Tesla
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Deutsche Bank is a problem bank.
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Problem
Bank
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Citi is the cheapest large bank.
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Bank
Cheapest
Large
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I'm flattered anybody would call me a legend.
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Flattered
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I'm not really worried about England's banks.
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Worried
Banks
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The world needs more standardization, less innovation.
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Innovation
Standardization
World More Needs
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I have no negative stories about Deutsche Bank, period.
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Bank
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Once in a blue moon, an entire industry is a good short.
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Blue
Moon
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Alan Greenspan is the worst Chairman of the Fed in history.
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Chairman
Worst
Alan
Fed
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The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.
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Equal
Profit
Tasks
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Do your own homework. I can't overstate the importance of this.
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Homework
Overstate
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Deutsche Bank has a very simple problem. It doesn't make money.
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Bank
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When you're levered 9 to 1, it'd be unreal for a bank to go down.
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Unreal
Bank
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I don't think anybody has any idea what the economic impact of Brexit will be.
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Brexit
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Nobody is going to invest in the Italian banks unless they trust their balance sheets.
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Balance Sheets
Italian
Sheets
Banks
Invest
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My parents worked as brokers at Oppenheimer securities. They managed to finagle me a job.
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Broker
Securities
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What value does cryptocurrency actually add? No one's been able to answer that question for me.
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Able
Actually
Answer
Cryptocurrency
Question
Value
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When I started out as an equity analyst, we had no securitization data. We relied on company data.
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Equity
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I've always felt there was something wrong with Wells Fargo's culture, for a very, very long time.
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Fargo
Time Culture Long
Time Always Culture
Very Long Time
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I'm not short, so I can make a speech and drive the stock down and cover the stock. That's not what I do.
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Stock
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The cultural issues, I think, at Wells Fargo went very, very deep. They have to unwind these cultural issues.
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Cultural Issues
Fargo
Unwind
Cultural
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I know my Trotskyites well, and I know you don't want to be invested in the U.K. if a Trotskyite is prime minister.
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Prime Minister
Invested
Minister
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The one stock in my portfolio which I say hasn't worked yet but has the potential for a big home run is General Motors.
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General Motors
Home Run
General
Portfolio
Run
Motors
Stock
Worked
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Daniel Tarullo has more power of the U.S. banking system than anybody since Alexander Hamilton. That's not an exaggeration, by the way.
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Banking
Banking System
Exaggeration
Alexander
Power Way More
Daniel
More Power
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What is very negative is that in every country in Europe, the largest owner of that country's sovereign bonds are that country's banks.
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Sovereign
Banks
Bonds
Owner
Largest
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Elon Musk is a very, very smart man, but there are a lot of smart people in this world, and you've got to execute. He's got execution problems.
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Smart
Smart Man
Very
Lot
Man
He
Elon Musk
Execute
Got
Problems
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Financial innovation is an oxymoron. It's very rare that there is something that's actually financial innovation. It's a euphemism for hiding leverage.
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Euphemism
Financial
Hiding
Innovation
Oxymoron
Rare
Leverage
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I'm shorting two stocks in the U.K., but I've got a screen of about 50, and I might short all 50 if I think Jeremy Corbyn is going to be prime minister.
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Prime Minister
Jeremy
Minister
Stocks
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People always come up to me and ask what the next 'big short' will be. The truth is I simply do not have an answer, and do not want to have an answer, to this question.
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Truth Is
Truth Me People
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Running my fund in 2008 felt a little like being Noah. Noah builds his ark, and he puts his family on the ark, and off they go. So he and his family are safe, and everybody else is dying.
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Ark
Dying
Fund
Builds
Everybody Else
Noah
Puts
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If you ever had the misfortune of reading all 2,000 pages of Dodd-Frank, which I have done - and it almost killed me - basically, all it does is create a list of all the things it wants the Fed to fix.
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Dodd Frank
Pages
Done Me Things
Fed
Misfortune
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That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice ... They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.
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Rip
Wall
Years
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We need the government to force the banks to write down all their bad assets now and then recapitalize themselves, preferably with private capital. Those banks that cannot raise sufficient capital should be seized and their deposits sold off.
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Assets
Now And Then
Sufficient
Banks
Seized
Sold
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I thought that there would never again be an opportunity to be involved with an industry as socially destructive and morally bankrupt as the subprime mortgage industry. I was wrong. The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.
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Destructive
Proven
Bankrupt
Morally
Socially
Task
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The only thing that I know for sure is that the people who invest in the U.K., those investors, believe strongly that the ramifications of a hard Brexit are very bad, and they believe that a recession will take place in the U.K., and that would clearly be negative for banks of the U.K.
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Ramifications
Banks
Brexit
Invest
Recession
Strongly
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The single greatest line I ever wrote as an analyst was after Lomas said they were hedged: 'The Lomas Financial Corporation is a perfectly hedged financial institution: it loses money in every conceivable interest rate environment.' I enjoyed writing that sentence more than any sentence I ever wrote.
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Enjoyed
Environment
Financial
Interest
Loses
Rate
Single
Writing
Greatest
Analyst
Corporation
Institution
Line
Perfectly
Sentence
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