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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

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
People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.
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Lying People Reality
Bonds despite their ridiculous yields will not easily be threatened with a new bear market.
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Bears Ridiculous Yield
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
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
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
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
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
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
Even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
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Country Currency Even Out Print
Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries.
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Creditors Dollars Sanity
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for “machines” are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs.
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Jobs Political Writing
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
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
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
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

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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