“Our real GDP for the year 2011, according to national estimates, exceeded 5 percent in light of the significant improvement of activity following a freeze in the first months of the year.”
“Supply from the Middle East has been reliable despite perceived disturbances in the region… there is no shortage of oil.”
“We want a price around $100, that’s what we want.”
“We made a revolution only to go now from one dictatorship to another.”
“Europe is watching us, austerity can no longer be the only option.”
“German chancellor Angela Merkel has to know that the politics of austerity have suffered a humiliating defeat.”
“Grexit [the possibility of Greece leaving the Eurozone] path: election, default, exit, capital controls, deposit freeze, drachmatization of euro claims, depreciation, return to growth/jobs.”
“This puts egg on our face and we deserve any criticism we get.”
“Jamie Dimon, the head of [JP Morgan], is one of the smartest bankers we have got, and they still lost $2 billion and counting.”
“There are issues that we need to look at specifically with respect to Facebook.”
“I wouldn’t appoint somebody to do my job because nobody would run the business the way I do. You might as well have asked Frank Sinatra who he would appoint to replace him. Somebody can sing but can they sing like Sinatra? No.”
