"It's just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis, how we ended up there and how we got to where we are today, without having some basic, non-trivial understanding of the financial sector, credit, and the banking system."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Alan M. Taylor

#Class Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Banking Quotes

“Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.”
“Young people should investigate where the filmmaker stands on the issue of file sharing, before they spend money on them at all.”
“The over curious are not over wise.”
“You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend.”
“Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.”
“I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.”
“Chocolate is a vegetable. Honest.”
“In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.”

Source : "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, 1970.

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