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2008 |
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The world's next financial crisis was likely to originate in the relationships among the world's biggest countries, not in the "periphery" as during the Asian crisis of 1997.
In particular, he was worried about the growing imbalances in the US economy. |
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2004 |
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Newt Gingrich predicts that George W. Bush will carry Florida because Joe Lieberman is not running. |
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2003 |
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The structural imbalances have been fully dealt with. Rather, it's that Washington has now pumped in so much extra money that the economy is bound to grow 3 to 4 percent over the next year -- and maybe a year or two after that. |
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2003 |
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We're going to feel like we've dodged the bullet, but we haven't. We'll feel very good for the next few years, but when it ends we'll be back in worse shape. |
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2003 |
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The current account deficit (the amount Americans spend and invest over what we produce and save), is already at an unsustainable 5 percent of GDP and will only grow larger in the next two years. |
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2003 |
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The only thing that will finally bring things back toward a more reasonable balance is some combination of a fall in the dollar, a rise in taxes and an increase in household savings, each of which will require a reduction in our standard of living. |
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2003 |
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The decision by Microsoft has profound implications for businesses across all industry sectors, it will prompt every major corporation to consider whether it is using stock-based pay in the most effective way. |
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2002 |
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The next decade will bring more advances, more improvements than ever before. |
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2002 |
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Radical conservatism was proclaimed dead in the early 1960s. It wasn't even sleeping. It was planning, successfully, to become the orthodoxy of the next 40 years. Now we have to nerve ourselves to challenge it. |
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2000 |
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On the pretext of inventing tomorrow's medicines, there is a temptation to patent genes, privatise them and use them for the wrong ends. |
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1999 |
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For the first time since 1945 the victors of the second world war (less Russia) have ignored the sole source of international legality, the UN. This allows China, India or Russia, to conduct similar interventions in their own spheres of influence. |
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1999 |
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The Palestinians in the West bank and Gaza and of Israel have a potential for growth three or four times higher than that of the Jewish population. They will make up the majority in mandatory Palestine between 2007 and 2013. |
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1998 |
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From now on, the much-vaunted Asian tiger economies, and South Korea in particular, will be subject to structural adjustment plans similar to those for the poorest African countries. |
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1997 |
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It will probably be 2010, 2020 or even 2050 (just after the centenary of the foundation of the People's Republic) before Beijing will have properly caught up economically. |
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1995 |
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I predict the internet will go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse. |
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1995 |
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We lost our base in the South, I know these boys. I grew up with them. They feel that our reforms always come at their expense, until we stop making them pay the whole price of liberty for others we are never going to unite our party. |
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1981 |
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640k ought to be enough for anybody |
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1977 |
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There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. |
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1968 |
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But what is [the microchip] good for? |
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1949 |
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It would appear we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements; they tend to sound pretty silly in five years. |
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1943 |
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. |
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1936 |
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I cannot conceive that anybody will require multiplications at the rate of 40,000 or even 4,000 per hour; such a revolutionary change as the octonary scale should not be imposed upon mankind in general for the sake of a few individuals |
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1932 |
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There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.plendid employment year. |
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1929 |
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1930 will be a splendid employment year. |
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1929 |
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Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. |
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1927 |
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Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? |
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1911 |
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Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value |
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1903 |
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The flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years. |
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1899 |
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Everything that can be invented has been invented |
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1895 |
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It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything. |
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