14 Quotes by Paul McCulley

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    But there does have to be a point, ... where the doctor says, 'Fridge, you gotta go back to eating.'" ()

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    To say this is the last day of the bear market would be an act of hubris." ()

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    The sheer act of tightening will be viewed in the bond market as the sun coming up in the East." ()

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    The biggest issue right now is that natural-gas prices and winter heating bills are probably going to be up 30 percent versus last year. And for a good chunk of the country, that matters even more than the price of filling up the SUV," ()

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    The turnaround can't be anywhere as robust and profound as the data said this week. At the same time, from a market perspective you have to respect that the data was above expectations. So it's a negative for bonds." ()

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    That might leave some people scratching their heads. Ultimately they get the message, but you need a translator at times." ()

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    The gold bugs missed that. But they were not wrong, even though most of them went broke. In the end, fiat currency regimes are inflationist. Soaring gold over the last year has coincided with the Fed's open acknowledgement that it has fallen off the disinflation wagon, not because it could not help itself, but because it had no choice." ()

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    The gold bugs missed that, ... But they were not wrong, even though most of them went broke. In the end, fiat currency regimes are inflationist. Soaring gold over the last year has coincided with the Fed's open acknowledgement that it has fallen off the disinflation wagon, not because it could not help itself, but because it had no choice." ()

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    Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

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