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Better-paid workers buy more goods and services, increasing aggregate demand and baking a bigger economic pie for everyone. ”
For people who grew up in the last four decades of the 20th century, it is hard to grasp the concept of negative interest rates. How is it even possible? If interest rates are the price of money, is the marketplace broadcasting that money is on sale? Are we just giving it away? ”
Beijing is trying to split the baby between simultaneously liberalizing the economy and maintaining economic stability, but those two factors are increasingly mutually exclusive. ”
My faith in the economic potential of the low carbon economy is not an untested prediction. ”
It's impossible to make a living in the arts unless you make a fortune. There's almost no in-between. Writers are either broke or rolling in it. Oddly, you can't tell them apart. ”
Football. It sounds simple, but it's always been the case - I don't see myself living without playing. ”
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest. ”
It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the psychical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart. ”
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. ”
I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else. ”