American - Businessman | April 2, 1946 -
Mergers generate substantial synergies.
Roger Altman
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Reasonable mergers generate substantial synergies, so that provides for earnings and cash-flow growth even if it doesn't provide for revenue growth, and I think that's a big driver.
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When Xi Jinping came to power, there were a series of hints that market-based capitalism would be allowed to move forward under his leadership. At the first real threat, they've fallen over themselves to impose government control.
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Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.
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We live in an era where the global capital markets are the super power in the world, and when they move against you as they've moved against Russia, as we've all seen in the ruble, there's nothing that can stop that.
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Too many companies are just being big for the sheer sake of it. Too many CEOs thinking bigger is better.
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The Fed is the major U.S. firefighter. It's not the Treasury. It's not the Congress. We certainly saw that vividly in 2008.
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I don't think there's a more battle-hardened veteran anywhere than Larry Summers.
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I think Obamacare, for all its controversy, is actually working.
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The 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed have had devastating effects on the U.S. economy and millions of American lives. But the U.S. economy will emerge from its trauma stronger and widely restructured.
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The United States is much further along because its financial crisis struck three years before Europe's, in 2008, causing headwinds that have pressured it ever since.
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The long-standing wisdom that everyone wins in a single world market has been undermined. Global trade, capital flows, and immigration are declining.
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