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Only after Eden agreed to leave Egypt unconditionally did Eisenhower arrange a billion-dollar rescue package from the IMF and the Export-Import Bank.
— Niall Ferguson
the Bank's proper role in a crisis as the 'lender of last resort', to lend freely, albeit at a penalty rate, to combat liquidity crises.42
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If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.
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achievement to create the first modern insurance fund, based on correct actuarial and financial principles, rather than mercantile gambling.
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the medieval contract known as the census, which allowed one party to buy a stream of annual payments from another.
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I can't think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.
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The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril
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Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.
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If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.
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The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
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The ascent of money has been essential to the ascent of man.
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Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?
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From the point of view of most African-Americans, American independence postponed emancipation by at least a generation.
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My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.
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no man prepar'd for it; no man consider'd it would come like a Thief in the night, exactly as it happens in the case of death.'74
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Africa is in fact a more Christian continent than Europe. There are now, for example, more Anglicans in Nigeria than in England.
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The German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, was one of the few authentic geniuses among nineteenth-century statesmen.
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There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another's) situation.
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Today, banking assets (that is, loans) in the world's major economies are equivalent to around 150 per cent of those countries' combined GDP.
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As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
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I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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I'm over-industrious, so I don't feel quite such a deviant in America as I did in England.
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The reality, then, was that Indian nationalism was fuelled not by the impoverishment of the many but by the rejection of the privileged few.
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The way the money was spent ensured that Spain's newfound wealth provided the entire continent with a monetary stimulus.
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We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.
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Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
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So I was a punk out of frustration. But I became a Tory out of hope.
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Under the Convention of Chuenpi, signed in January 1841 (but then repudiated by the Emperor), Hong Kong became a British possession.
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Known to the Chinese as 'Iron-Headed Old Rat
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striving to be a master of the universe
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Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the where-withal: call it what you like, money matters.
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A chaos so great and so obscure that nothing about it can be known'.
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the air was filled with obscure ideas
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And ingenuous outsiders, like Groucho Marx.83
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In the financial sector, those whom the gods want to destroy they first teach math.
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The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
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After the creation of credit by banks, the birth of the bond was the second great revolution in the ascent of money.
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Conceptio culpa Nasci pena Labor vita Necesse mori 'Conception is sin, birth is pain, life is toil, death is inevitable.
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I have three kids in Britain, and I am there at least once a month.
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When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.
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Just as Hitler had predicted, it was rival empires more than indigenous nationalists who propelled the process of decolonization forward.
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To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.
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I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.
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Between a half and two-thirds of all Europeans who migrated to North America between 1650 and 1780 did so under contracts of indentured servitude;
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Making provision for an uncertain future has taken the very simple form of an investment (usually leveraged, that is debt-financed) in a house,
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The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.
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President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.
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The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.
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When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.
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You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.
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One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers.
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Edsel Ford, son of the firm's founder Henry,
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Figures must be adjusted downwards to take account of the cost of living, which has risen by a factor of nearly seven in my lifetime.
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We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.
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money: a unit of account, a store of value - portable power.
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I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.
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After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism
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It was a war of evil against lesser evil.
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