American - Actor | November 25, 1944 -
Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.
Ben Stein
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Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
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Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
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We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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It means zero to be against greed.
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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
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