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I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon. I love the Beatles and especially John Lennon. My mom and read more

I just wrote 'Merry Christmas John' on my balloon. I love the Beatles and especially John Lennon. My mom and dad let me take the day off school to come here.

What the market's figuring out is the Fed is coming toward an end of this movement,

What the market's figuring out is the Fed is coming toward an end of this movement,

He [Greenspan] is going to say we're not in a recession, but the risks are very, very high,

He [Greenspan] is going to say we're not in a recession, but the risks are very, very high,

The economy is not in a recession. This economy had enormous spending imbalances that it had to work out.

The economy is not in a recession. This economy had enormous spending imbalances that it had to work out.

There are enormously long lags from a change in exchange rates to impact on production and employment. ...The dollar has read more

There are enormously long lags from a change in exchange rates to impact on production and employment. ...The dollar has already weakened and frankly this kind of move isn't going to matter very much.

The great problem with doing that in real time is people live in real time and almost everybody's default forecasting read more

The great problem with doing that in real time is people live in real time and almost everybody's default forecasting method is to extrapolate the recent past.

If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look read more

If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is read more

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness

We hope people will walk away with the idea that this was a very frequent act of violence, ... We read more

We hope people will walk away with the idea that this was a very frequent act of violence, ... We won't be able to deny it any longer.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound