Alex Berenson Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Individual income can grow only as fast as productivity rises.”

“Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.”

“Plumbing is usually boring.”

“Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.”

“Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.”

“Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.”

“The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.”

“Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.”

“For a spy novelist like me, the Edward J. Snowden story has everything. A man driven by ego and idealism - can anyone ever distinguish the two? - leaves his job and his beautiful girlfriend behind. He must tell the world the Panopticon has arrived. His masters vow to punish him, and he heads for Moscow in a desperate search for refuge.”

“Institutions like mutual funds often worry that if they disclose their plans to buy a stock, copycats will move quickly and drive up the stock before the purchase is completed.”