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What happens in the media is the cult of personality. The brands who have been forced to cut their staff have been forced to take on the brands of journalists. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#brands #cult #cut #forced #happens

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. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#american economy #because #developments #economy #envy

When you're failing, there's a very powerful incentive to put ideology aside and just do what seems to work. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#failing #ideology #incentive #just #powerful

Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cultural #dna #happen #made #societies

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#capital #cheap #cost #credit #down

My policy is I will help any policymaker who asks, whether they be a Republican or a Democrat. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#asks #democrat #help #i #policy

A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#begun #believe #construction #corner #crash

Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#back #bad #because #bonds #cataclysmic

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#fall #grows #home #often #prices

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#art #believe #building #create #drive