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“The most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Ronald Reagan. “When Nobel Prize-winner…
Read More“The most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” Ronald Reagan. “When Nobel Prize-winner…
Read More“Given all this, what do MPs do all day? Media manipulation, not operational planning on priorities. “Unsurprisingly, most senior MPs in all three parties…
Read More“The first rule of compounding is to never interrupt it unnecessarily.” Charlie Munger. “[Ronnie Millar] was.. surprised to be ordered by [Mrs….
Read More“The problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that…
Read More“FED’S WILLIAMS SAYS IN A DOWNTURN WE COULD CONSIDER QUANTITATIVE EASING, NEGATIVE RATES.” Tweet by Reuters’ Jennifer Ablan, reporting on a speech by…
Read More“Isn’t it funny when you walk into an investment firm and you see all of the financial advisers watching CNBC ? That gives me…
Read More“Events, dear boy, events.” Alleged response by the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, when asked by a journalist what is most likely to blow…
Read More“A key prediction of traditional economics.. is that the economy as a whole must at some point reach equilibrium – a prediction made by…
Read More“In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, a B-52 bomber carrying two Mark 39 thermonuclear bombs accidentally crashed in rural North Carolina….
Read More“They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” Attributed to Talleyrand. Since everybody else in financial media has been indulging in an orgy…
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