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Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new… — Robert P. Murphy Copy Share Image
Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
Canada has no closer friend, partner, and ally than the United States. We look forward to working very closely with President-elect Trump,… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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I believe the United States should join the rest of the world through paid family and medical leave. It would cost us… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
So we are in for years of debt deflation. That means that people have to pay so much debt service for mortgages,… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
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Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
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I grew up in Chicago, but for the last 28 years I've lived in Moscow and London, and am now a British… — Bill Browder Copy Share Image
But Al Jazeera America represents something more than news that isn’t profit or ratings driven — they represent foreign investment in a… — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children… — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to… — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
In North America, the medium-to-large publishers are generally confining investment to enhancements, upgrades and opportunities for incremental capacity and efficiency improvements, while… — Eric Bell Copy Share Image
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Literally draw a detailed map-like an organization chart-of interlocking ownership and affiliates, many of which were also publicly traded. So, identifying one… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The first law of the market is to make the largest possible profit from other people's labor or go out of business.… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
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When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent… — Lisa Gansky Copy Share Image
It was a choice between a paint factory in Indianapolis - a management training program to maybe run the paint factory one… — Dara Khosrowshahi Copy Share Image
Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry.… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
Investment banks started recruiting at Harvard back in the day, and they'd fly me down to New York City and I was… — Dean Norris Copy Share Image
Through the Social Enterprise Demonstration Fund, we are connecting high-potential social enterprises with the resources they need to grow and create jobs.… — Brad Duguid Copy Share Image
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