American - Journalist | January 12, 1953 - 4
I don't understand it and haven't understood in this world of technology: where every building has a camera, every ATM has a camera, why don't we have cameras on police officers?
Rick Santelli
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I come from immigrant grandparents. The country would not be what it is if it wasn't for the immigrants in this country.
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There's not a lot of wealth throughout all the country shared equally.
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I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper.
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If you trade in paper, the notion of many who trade gold - the Ayn Randers - if the financial world comes to an end, they're going to have the gold. If you're playing in ETFs, you're going to have a piece of paper.
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When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies.
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I've talked about commodity price volatility in the past: go back to the tape... I never said it was about inflation.
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Printing money - is it really the answer? ... If we just print a million dollars for every man, woman, and child in the country and handed it to them, won't that fix everything? Because in order to really look at printing - I like to take everything to the extreme.
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Look at the Weimar Republic and their hyperinflation in the early '20s. It didn't happen overnight. I've used the analogy, it's a lot like soybeans: you plant 'em, you wait. Conditions take some time. You need some sun; you need some water, but ultimately things start to grow, and are we in that phase or not?
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The issue is, you're not going to have a lot of inflation showing up when you have no velocity.
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You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It's not the year I was born. I'm a little older than that. I wish it was the year I was born. It was the year one of my favorite books was written: 'Atlas Shrugged.' Ayn Rand.
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Think Apple, think the FBI. We are living 'Atlas Shrugged.' Why is it so important? Because I would hate for the country to have that rhetorical question: Where is John Galt, who is John Galt? John Galt is all of us.
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