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.
BILL GROSSAccountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for “machines” are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs.
More Bill Gross Quotes
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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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Retrain, rehire into higher paying and value-added jobs? That may be the political myth of the modern era. There aren’t enough of those jobs.
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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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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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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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Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession – anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.
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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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I would admit Im an introvert. I dont know why introverts have to apologize.
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Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, ‘At least my wife loves me.’
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Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.
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We are witnessing the death of abundance and the borning of austerity, for what may be a long, long time.
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Even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
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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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People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.
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When the tide goes out, you get to see who’s swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time
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