?I want staffers who are so loyal that they will kiss my ass in Macy?s front window and tell everyone it smells like roses,? said the late president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the model for the character, Francis Underwood, in the hit cable TV series House of Cards.
?We need to have more faith in the central bank?s ability to print money?, said Scott Minerd, of Guggenheim Partners.
?Most inventions fail because the timing is wrong. Inventing is a lot like surfing. You have to anticipate and catch the wave just at the right moment,? said computer scientist and futurologist, Ray Kurzweil.
?China has been doing everything right for the last ten years. Our government is made up of 'C' students that were political science majors, whereas, the Chinese government is made up of PhD's that were educated at Cambridge and Harvard,' said one Washington observer.
?The central bank put is alive and well in Washington, Brussels, and Tokyo? said Michael Block, from Rhino Trading.
?2015 is setting up to be a repeat of 1999,? the year when NASDAQ delivered a nonstop melt up, rocketing by a stunning 85%, said my friend and hedge fund legend, David Tepper.
?A central bank is best that governs least, but is prepared to govern radically when called upon,? said 19th century man of letters, Walter Bagehot, an early editor of The Economist
?We?re still operating off of Jackson Hole, 2011 when Ben Bernanke delivered his famous speech preceding quantitative easing,? said foreign exchange trader, Ira Harris.
?You can reduce discretionary spending down to zero and it won?t have much impact on our fiscal problems because it?s such a small proportion of the total,? said Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve.
?You have to be very careful giving up analogue dollars for digital pennies,? said Jeff Zuker, CEO of NBC.
