"A central bank is best that governs least, but is prepared to govern radically when called upon," said 19th century man of letters, Walter Bagehot, the first editor of The Economist magazine in London.
“All over the world, money managers are waiting for the signal that the Fed is going to end tightening. I think everyone is on a hair trigger,” said oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.
“An S&P 500 index fund never beats the index. There’s fees, there’s friction costs, and other costs involved,” said Robert Reynolds, a manager at Putnam Investment Fund.
'If you can get a dividend higher than the yield on ten-year debt, it's an opportunity we haven't seen in our lifetime. On a five-year horizon, investing in large multinationals with high dividends will have a large payday' said Lawrence Fink, CEO of Black Rock.
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem," said the late President,
Ronald Reagan.
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city,” said the comedian, George Burns, who lived to over 100.
“Half of the global economy is in recession. Euroland is, Russia certainly is, and all of South America is. Add them all up, and North America is the only decent 2.5% growth area in the world. Rates are going down, not only because of the absence of global growth, but because inflation is very, very low,” said Bill Gross, CEO of bond giant PIMCO.
“The only surprise to me is that so many people were surprised,” said Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, about the financial crisis he predicted.
“Over the long term, all of the fiat currencies of the world are involved in a competitive devaluation. The structural stresses in most of the western economies are such that central banks will attempt to continue to substitute liquidity for solvency,” said Rick Rule, director, president and CEO of Sprott U.S. Holdings, a precious metals specialist.
“There is no sign of a recession anywhere,” a major bank economist told me in September 2007.
