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- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
- Heavy Weights
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.
- Price
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.
- Line
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.
- Profession
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020