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“Where is the largest line if you go to visit any of the major metropolis cities of the world, and you look for people queuing up for a visa? ''

Hugh Hendry on de-dollarization

Hugh Hendry
Kitco News, August 19, 2023
''Elsewhere is where they always are.”

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Sir Roger Scruton
National Conservatism, Europe at a Crossroads: The Virtue of Nationalism conference, London, May 13, 2019.
Milton Friedman on the fallacy of interest rates and monetary policy

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Milton Friedman
Hoover Institution, Hoover Digest: Reviving Japan, April 30, 1998
''... the only thing the Fed hates more than inflation is a banking crisis.''

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Fisher Investments Editorial Staff, As Winter Wanes, Prices Continue to Cool, Inflation is easing even more than headline data suggest.
Fisher Investments, March 14, 2023
“In economics, things take longer to happen than you think they will, and they happen faster than you thought they could.”

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Rudiger Dornbusch (1942–2002)
German economist, who subsequently moved to the United States, where he obtained his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago
''Twitter is both a social media company and a crime scene''

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Elon Musk
Twitter, 10 December 2022
''Clarity in the stock market is always expensive to buy!''

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Ken Fisher, Founder and Executive Chairman of Fisher Investments
Fisher Investments, Ken Fisher Debunks: “Don’t Buy In Until There is Clarity That You’re in a Bull Market”, 9 December 2022
“The markets lead the policymakers in the direction the markets believe are the greatest risks, because those risks become reality!”

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Jeff Snider
Eurodollar University, "There is no mistaking these signals; that's the bad news", 8 December 2022
"Diversity is just another word for conformity. It’s the new way of saying conformity, diversity".

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Steven Patrick Morrissey, also known as Morrissey, solo artist, and former frontman of The Smiths.
Morrissey Interview, The London Palladium, October 2022
''Mapping the model to the estimated transfers, we find that the main purpose of the outsized Greek bailout was to prevent an exit from the eurozone and possible contagion.''

"Bailouts to avoid sovereign default were comparatively modest."

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Philippe Martin, Todd Messer; The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts and the Eurozone Crisis
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, International Finance Discussion Papers 1351, August 2022
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