If you believe in free markets, I don’t want to make any compromise with my principles and I think that’s the right policy for Canadians and for Canadian consumers.
People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks – but then they aren’t in the game when the markets are doing well.
My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.
I couldn’t care less about big markets. That’s not who I am.
Speculative markets have always been vulnerable to illusion. But seeing the folly in markets provides no clear advantage in forecasting outcomes, because changes in the force of the illusion are difficult to predict.
It is important to exhaust the potential of existing markets. But it is equally important to open up new markets.
What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as ‘liberal democracy,’ ‘free markets’ and ‘Europe’ with suspicion.
You cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings.
Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other so-called tax expenditures. The markets should respond to them as they do spending cuts, with little contraction in economic activity.
I don’t think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don’t pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.
Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.
Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they’ve redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don’t inquire into the details.
The response to the Starbucks brand has been phenomenal in our international markets.
From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
New York has magnificent eating available, both in restaurants and in the materials available to home cooks in the many specialty markets.
Without doubt, timely and democratic access to financial and market information contributes to smoothly functioning financial markets.
There’s a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.
Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven’t shared in that bounty, and if we don’t pay attention to their concerns, all the political favor for open markets will dry up.
If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn’t an obstacle to thriving free markets; it’s a vital part of them.
In 1987, Merrill Lynch asked me to open a Swiss capital markets operation. I was 27. In hindsight, I was lucky enough to start a business from scratch. And I mean from zero – no offices, even, just a space with walls between different areas. We decided to tear down the walls.
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets – an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.
God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.
Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that’s the stuff of bubbles.
In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.
The markets are the world’s greatest Rubik’s cube. And I love solving puzzles.
If you look at the international markets, for projects that are capital-intensive, the minute the construction phase is completed and production is supposed to start, normally all these loans get refinanced.
China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.
It has always been very difficult for writers to survive commercially in India because the market was so small. But that’s not true at all any more. It’s one of the world’s fastest growing and most vibrant markets for books, especially in English.
Ultimately savings have to go somewhere and I think they will find their home in financial markets and within financial markets, a large part in equity.
In markets, you have rich years, and you have less rich years.
The credit derivative market would never have evolved but for the preexistence of the derivative markets because so much of the technology was borrowed.
Before the GOP became the party of Trump’s gangster capitalism, they weren’t perfect capitalists, but they at least paid lip service to the power of markets and capitalism.
We are focusing on four vertical markets – utilities, public sector, large enterprises, and transportation. And, we are building a software business as well that includes analytics, security, IOT platforms, and AI.
Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.
I don’t like the idea of ‘trends’ at all. If you follow trends, then everybody looks the same. The best shopping experiences are in local markets, especially in foreign cities.
You shouldn’t be trying to create a system where no bank fails, but you should be creating one that catches a bank and allows it to fail without impacting the financial markets.
I have two interests in life – markets and women. Both are concerned with four letter words – markets with the risk and woman with love.
I like finding things in locations where I’ve worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.
I’m super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.
By promising to intervene in vulnerable markets in the event of excessive financial volatility, the IMF, as the largest player, would reduce coordination problems among investors.
Proprietary stock-index arbitrage is but one aspect of program trading. Arbitrage will take place whenever there is an imbalance created in one or more markets that are similar.
As for now, we must not forget who would have to exchange the land? those villages which live more than others on irrigation, on orange and fruit plantations, in houses built near water wells and pumping stations, on livestock and property and easy access to markets.
When I come home, all I do is cook. I love cooking, so I go to markets, buy food, cook it for friends. I love doing that.
I have no special knowledge of markets, so I invest solely in low-expense index funds, plus some cryptocurrencies.
I was convinced that the trading frequency measured a fundamental heartbeat of financial markets. Clearly it reflected the flow of information. It turns out also to be closely related to measures of liquidity.
In landlocked developing countries, geographical barriers to markets are unnecessarily accompanied by virtual ones: their e-connectivity rates are among the world’s lowest.
We are reaching a stage where the source of food has become markets and supermarkets. On a sub-conscious level, we are becoming unaware of the original source, which is land.
The bottom line is the best consumer protections are competitive, innovative markets that are transparent. Now, they need to be vigorously policed for force and fraud, but the agencies that do that need to be accountable.
There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.
Vertical intergration is an organizational response to the contracting difficulties that attend intermediate product markets where trades that are supported by transaction-specific assets are exposed to hazard.
I loved being in London. Always walking everywhere, always out and about and always at markets, walking around Brick Lane and Covent Garden and Soho.
I have said many times that it’s a mistake to bet against the long-term health of the U.S. equity markets because it’s a mistake to bet against the long-term health of the U.S. economy.
How does allowing China to constantly rig trade in its favor advance the core conservative goal of making markets more efficient?
Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
I think it is a mistake for candidates, or once they get elected in office, to be dwelling too much on the topic of markets.
