Myron Scholes A bank needs models to measure risk. The problem, however, is that any one bank can measure its risk, but it also has to know what the risk taken by other banks in the system happens to be at any particular moment. – Myron Scholes Bank Quotes Banks Quotes Measure Quotes Models Quotes Moment Quotes Risk Quotes Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to the poor, they have a propensity to consume that’s much higher than the wealthy, though I wish they would talk to my wife about that; she seems to have a propensity to consume. If someone says to you, ‘Go to an old-folks’ home,’ that’s kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.
Mike MillsSad My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was ‘unsober’ and I wasn’t playing by my rules. – Mike Mills
Dick Francis I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they’d been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the know child. – Dick Francis
Ruth Reichl The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we’ve made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying. – Ruth Reichl
Laura Whitmore No one knows what they’re doing. I remember going into an interview with a big star and I was nervous. Then I realised they were more nervous. I realised I was the one with the power because I was the one asking the questions. – Laura Whitmore
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