Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell quotes

“In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.”
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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“The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it”
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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“We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.”
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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“The richer people, when they get another $100,000, or another million, or 10 million, don't tend to spend it as much as the poorer people would if they got another $100 or $1,000 or $5,000. All the empirical evidence suggests that the rich tend to consume a lower proportion of income than middle and lower-income people.”
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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“If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.”
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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“Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.”
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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“In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.”
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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“Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.”
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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“The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national economies. We don't know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.”
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

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“Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from”

“Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.”

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.”

“Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?" "It is the only number that describes itself when you read it, 'One zero, two ones, three twos, two threes'.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“What I love about doing my concerts is always feeding off the fans and their energy.”

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“Well, filming in Hawaii, you know, is a blessing. It's one of the most beautiful places on this planet. It has a very mystic energy which informs you as an actor.”

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“You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.”