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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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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…
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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