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01 / belief
“I think painting didn’t get a lot of momentum again until the 19th century, when there was new innovations, which opened up new possibilities.”
02 / belief
“Again, I think the Fed felt that the crisis was very severe and that they needed to do a lot.”
03 / belief
“My view is that cinema has evolved in a way where the more interesting directors today are ones that have sort of a more weird or edgy style, more unusual style, because the conventional masterpieces like The Godfather have already been done.”
04 / belief
“I think that what happened in the case of COVID and other monetary policy mistakes, it’s more a question of the Fed just getting things wrong, misjudging the situation.”
05 / belief
“First of all, the deflation they’re going through, I would argue, is very similar to the deflation they went through in the late ’90s and early 2000s.”
06 / belief
“See, I believe that the fall in real GDP was mostly due to the fall in nominal GDP.”
07 / belief
“” Then there are some novels where you feel like a whole world has been sort of opened up in front of you. I think My Struggle was like that.”
08 / belief
“I believe the financial crisis was mostly a symptom of rapidly falling nominal GDP expectations.”
09 / belief
“I think the directors coming along now are perhaps as talented as ever or more talented, but it’s my receptivity to what’s being done is maybe not as high as when I was younger.”
10 / belief
“Also, in the field of economics, just seeing how policy shocks were interpreted at the time, as compared to how we think of them today — monetary policy decisions by Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal and so on — I found that very enlightening.”