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Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

Bill Gross

Even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
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Country Currency Even Out Print
Pay per click was just the beginning. The real evolution is pay per action.
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Action Click Pay Real
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
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
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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Long Naked Swimming
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
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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Brilliant Fidelity Fund Mutual
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
People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.
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Lying People Reality
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
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
I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?
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Excellence Track Years
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
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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Enough Jobs Myth People
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
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

Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

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