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As we all know, the budget decisions which give rise to increased debt are what counts, and the debt is just a by-product of those budget decisions.
Cheap natural gas is a big stimulus to petrochemical production and a meaningful one for all U.S. manufacturing.
China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.
Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.
I don't think there's a more battle-hardened veteran anywhere than Larry Summers.
I think Obamacare, for all its controversy, is actually working.
If a lending institution is faced with bids for a package of toxic assets that are less than the carrying value of those assets, the sale of those assets would trigger a further loss and reduce the underlying capital of the institution.
In September 2008, the overleveraged and undermanaged U.S. banking system suffered a terrifying collapse. And that, in turn, nearly took the whole country down.
In this age, if the currency of a major nation collapses, or its access to borrowing ends, it just can't function.
Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.
Mergers generate substantial synergies.
Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.
Russia's oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat.
Safer cities generally mean stronger urban economies.
The 2008 economic crisis and Great Recession forced widespread restructuring throughout the U.S. economy - not unlike a company gritting its teeth through a lifesaving bankruptcy.
The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the U.S. economy and millions of American lives. But the U.S. economy will emerge from its trauma stronger and widely restructured.
The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.
The financial and economic crash of 2008, the worst in over 75 years, is a major geopolitical setback for the United States and Europe.
The idea that America, whose oil production has been declining for the past 40 years, is now on track to become the world's biggest producer by 2015 is still hard to grasp.
The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.
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