H. W. Brands Quotes
In Clay’s time the federal government issued only metal money: gold and silver coins, called specie. Paper currency was the responsibility of banks, which promised to redeem their notes in specie.
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One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds, rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.
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Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
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Banks are kinda cool, you put some money in there. It should be kinda vaguely sexy, but it's not.
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The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.
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One of the things that the public sector banks need to do is to raise private capital from the market and not rely on government largesse.
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Letting the banks go bust instead of perpetually bailing them out is the right way to go.Iceland Did It Right; All others are doing it wrong.
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People are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don't know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won't sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats - the rich...the banks...the Chinese.
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What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there.
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I rob banks because that's where the money is.
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The U.S. must differentiate between controversial assertions of power, like those in the South China Sea, and fair reflections of China's growing contribution to the world, such as the new banks.
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Everyone knows that Jews control the media and banks and stuff. But did you know that when you go to a carnival and you have to be a certain height to go on a ride, Jews control that height? It has nothing to do with safety. It's just us flexing our Semitic muscles.
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Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
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We can only imagine what would happen to our health care and to the quality of our health care here in North Dakota if we took the federal government out of health care.
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As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.
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Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don't know.
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If you want prosperity, you must refuse to accept any circumstances that lead toward poverty.
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Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
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What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim "You know exactly what I mean!" depend for much of their force on the anonymous character of the intimacy between writer and reader.
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The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes.
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In Clay’s time the federal government issued only metal money: gold and silver coins, called specie. Paper currency was the responsibility of banks, which promised to redeem their notes in specie.
