Sebastian Faulks Quotes
Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.
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The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
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Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
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One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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I think by now if people hire me, they know I'm going to improvise. I'm an improviser by trade.
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
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Would I have traded 'Homeland' for anything else? No. Would I trade 'Billions' for anything else? No.
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A free trade agreement can be a win-win for E.U. and India.
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With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated.
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Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.
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Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
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I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13 and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.
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Let no one be in any doubt that this is a profoundly evil trade whose perpetrators have no regard for human life, ... We have been determined to crack down on this trade.
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It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
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There is no friendship in trade.
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If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.
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Don't take action with a trade until the market, itself, confirms your opinion. Being a little late in a trade is insurance that your opinion is correct. In other words, don't be an impatient trader.
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Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.
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Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched.
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America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.
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... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounding utterances could diverge radically, for the two men, in a wide range of cases.
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Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.
