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"Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular."
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"You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government."

"Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response."

"It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets."

"Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient."

"The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness."

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