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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.

Bill Gross

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
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
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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Ideas Oblivion Portfolios
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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Develop Economy Finance Manufacturing World
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Whenever I read the newspaper, I say to myself, ‘At least my wife loves me.’
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Newspapers Wife Wives Love
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
Finding the best person or the best organization to invest your money is one of the most important financial decisions you’ll ever make.
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Decision Important Organization

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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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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