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Fareed Zakaria
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 20
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
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There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
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If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.
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The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.
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The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.
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Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.
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It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.
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