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When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

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George Soros
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: August 12
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Once a trend is established it tends to persist and to run it’s full course.
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Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
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I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find expression in market prices. Those distortions can, occasionally, find ways to affect the fundamentals that market prices are supposed to reflect.
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