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• In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

  Peter DeFazio

  Years, Oil, Increase

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• I have decided that now is not the right time for me to run for the leadership - though I remain completely committed to ensuring we secure our position as a great trading nation with sensible controls on migration. I believe that Theresa May has the strength, judgment and values to deliver those things.

  Jeremy Hunt

  Running, Believe, Judgement

  "Theresa May launches Tory leadership bid with pledge to unite country" by Jessica Elgot and Rowena Mason, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Our shared histories and common values make us natural trading partners and we will continue to work with both the United Kingdom and the European Union as we move forward with this new decision.

  Justin Trudeau

  Moving, Decision, Unions

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

  John McCain

  Party, Pro Life, Politics

  "Recruiting McCain to the Democratic Ticket". www.newsbusters.org.

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• When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

  Douglas Coupland

  Wings, Ducks, Arms

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• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  Vince Cable

  Real, Recovery, Long

  "George Osborne's campaign against Ed Balls hit by fresh Libor revelation" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2012.

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• When you go into public service, you understand you're trading something. You want to feel good about what you do, but you're not going to make what people in private sector make.

  Trey Gowdy

  People, Feel Good, Want

  "Bonuses give taxpayers $70 million more reasons to hate the IRS". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2013.

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• Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.

  Frank Gaffney

  Country, Play, Organization

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• But my point is that you design something in the end that precludes any unhealthy trading practices that are not going to serve your environmental or your economic objectives but now is not the time to do it.

  John Anderson

  Practice, Design, Environmental

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• We should probably stop trading derivatives, anything more complex than regular options ... I am an options trader, and I don't understand options. How do you want a regulator to understand them?

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Business, Want, Derivatives

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• It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

  Alan Greenspan

  Business, Past, Derivatives

  "Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy" by Peter S. Goodman, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2008.

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• Recently though, our State Governments have discussed instigating a carbon trading scheme - the details are still to be decided - and that's an encouraging sign.

  Peter Garrett

  Government, Details, Schemes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

  Tony Hillerman

  Writing, Home, Elderly

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• We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.

  Mike Johanns

  Believe, Decision, Leader

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.

  Mike Johanns

  Borders, Beef, Cows

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.

  William C. Brown

  Gambling, Games, Pleasure

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• If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.

  William C. Brown

  Gambling, Betting, Ifs

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• When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic criticism.

  William C. Brown

  Spiritual, Stupidity, Marketing

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• I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Gold, Use, Cotton

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• We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Thinking, Done

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.

  Preet Bharara

  People, Directors, Dollars

  "How Prosecutor Preet Bharara Is Bringing Mob Squad Justice to Wall Street" by Massimo Calabresi, swampland.time.com. February 01, 2012.

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• Federal authorities have informed Martha Stewart's lawyers she will be indicted for her role in the ImClone insider trading scandal. Good news for Martha - stripes are back in this year.

  Craig Kilborn

  Years, Stripes, Roles

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• Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

  John Sterling

  Giving, Receiving, Life Is

  John Sterling (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Sterling”, p.261

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• A healthier, less impoverished planet is good for all of us. From an economic standpoint, it allows people to contribute more to the marketplace and lead productive lives. U.S. foreign assistance opens new markets to U.S. goods and services and creates new trading partners and allies.

  Mike Huckabee

  Productive Life, People, Allies

  "Why foreign aid still makes sense" by Mike Huckabee and Blanche Lincoln, www.politico.com. October 22, 2012.

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• The 40s are when you start trading your psychological problems for physical ones.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Age, Problem, Psychological

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