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Imperceptibly, the developed world’s manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

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Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
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Debt GDP Growth Slow
We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.
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Austerity Long Many
Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early ’90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?
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Bankers Capital Long Management Wall
Even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
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Country Currency Even Out Print
Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.
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Analysis Aspect Judging
Damn inflation, full speed ahead,’ Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly.
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Action Believe Inventor Thinking
Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn’t that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.
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Mean Thinking Writing
In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well.
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Doors Icons might Question
With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.
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Debt Government Movement
If companies don’t know that they can run out of money, they won’t be thinking of ways not to run out of money.
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Running Thinking Way
You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.
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Butterflies Butterfly Chasing Rose
When you’re underperforming the index, you go home at night and cry in your beer. It’s not fun, but who said this business should be fun. We’re too well paid to hang our heads and say boo hoo.
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Beer Fun Home
I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?
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Excellence Track Years
Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That’s where they want to go.
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Order Safety Trying
Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
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Equity Expenses Return
The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, … you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor — not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.
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Differences Moving Odds

Imperceptibly, the developed world’s manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

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Imperceptibly, the developed world’s manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

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