Greg says ordinary encounters with mass stupidity and selfishness can make elite contempt psychologically understandable even if the resulting doctrine is warped.
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Jiang treats the Xi鈥揟rump visit as a strategic theater.
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Jiang treats the Xi鈥揟rump visit as a strategic theater.
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"...it sometimes you know when I have us if we've worked retail jobs or service industry jobs and you're dealing with regular people all..."
"...me, everyone in the world, okay? This is what we call retail. Retail. Retail. Retail. But basically, it was only institutions that want to..."
"And that's because most retail dealers quietly tack on these huge markups, sometimes 10%, sometimes 20%. Sometimes. Sometimes even 30%. And you don't even..."
"...way you're probably overpaying by a lot and that's because most retail dealers quietly tack on these huge markups sometimes 10 sometimes 20 sometimes..."
"...Okay? If you are an investment bank, okay, if you're a retail bank, you cannot engage in risky lending. But if you're an investment..."
"...repealing the Glass -Steagall Act, what you do is you combine retail and investment together. And so, these banks now become very large. And..."
"And that's because most retail dealers quietly tack on these huge markups, sometimes 10%, sometimes 20%, sometimes even 30%. And you don't even notice..."
"...smart money class. I think it may have gone into the retail class as well, but there is a sense in the air that..."
"...an ounce and there's more to it than just a few retail investors buying up the precious metal here. So we'll get to all..."
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