American - Businessman | August 22, 1944 -
In the workplace, employees should be judged on their merit and hard work and not on aspects that are irrelevant to their performance.
Paul Singer
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Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.
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Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.
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Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.
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What I think about derivatives is if every institution that owns or trades them is properly margined and marked to market, including end-users, including every institution, including sovereigns and multilateral institutions, then the system would be safe - if people were margined the way customers of investment banks are margined.
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Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.
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The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status at the World Bank. That's shocking and disingenuous.
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It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.
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There is no safe haven in today's markets.
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I'm rarely optimistic.
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Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
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Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art prices, to see what the leading edge of hyperinflation could look like.
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