"There is no doubt that the Fed's large-scale asset purchases have caused major increases in a number of asset prices in the economy. This is especially true of mortgage backed securities and corporate bonds, and quite possibly of equities as well. For those people and institutions holding those things, the run up in prices has been a wealth bonanza."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Gerald Epstein

#Running Quotes #Numbers Quotes #People Quotes

“I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.”
“You get diarrhea out here, you dehydrate from the inside out - you leave the gene pool.”
“I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.”
“I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me. That would be a pointless lie, a mere bit of artfulness.”

Source : Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers
“Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.”

Source : "A Physician's Guide to Coping with Death and Dying". Book by Jan Swanson and Alan Cooper, December 9, 2004.
“I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.”
“He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of the worshipper.... William Kent, during Muirâ€™s life, paid him a rare tribute in giving to the nation a park of redwoods with the understanding that it should be named Muir Woods. But the nation owes him more. His work was not sectional but for the whole people, for he was the real father of the forest reservations of America.”
“Mind is buddha. This is not our brain; it's not our head.”

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