"The Fed has a lot of power in the economy because it has a big impact on the supply and cost of credit, that is, interest rates. It also plays a key role in supervising banks and historically has seemed to take it easy on the banks when it shouldn't have, such as in the lead up to the financial crisis."

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Gerald Epstein

#Impact Quotes #Keys Quotes #Play Quotes

“Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, "What do you do?" And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.”
“Every life is a profession of faith ...”
“I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.”
“It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.”
“Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.”

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.66, Random House
“The old saying 'if you want something done, then do it yourself' is as relevant now as it was then,”
“If someone disturbs you... they didn't kill you, but you really feel like "I wish this guy was dead"... you know that you will not kill him yourself, but if he gets struck by a truck or by a train, you would really be happy.”
“You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night donâ€™t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.”

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