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Articles: Sir John Templeton Consider these 'words of wisdom' about investing By Bob Parkman 9/20/2006 Many of us are inspired by great quotations. And you can find plenty of them related to investing. Let's take a look at some of these quotes to determine what they may have to offer us. http://www.sirjohntempleton.org/

Mezzanine and Equity Financing For Real Estate Deals: Historically, foreign entities have been willing to invest in the U.S. real estate market either as the senior lender to the project or as an equity player. Recently, foreign investors have shown a greater willingness to also provide the mezzanine financing for U.S. real estate projects. This article discusses the business and legal differences and risks associated with this type of financing as compared with equity financing.

Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Benjamin: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: Plastics. Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean? Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it? - Walter Brooke as Mr. Mcguire from The Graduate (1967) The bolded line is ranked #42 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. http://vanziggy.blog.me/50040490628

Gordon Gekko: Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I'll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I've been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutio...

Thomas Barrack Jr. THOMAS J. BARRACK JR. is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Colony Capital, LLC, and Colony Advisors, LLC. As such, he provides overall strategic and investment direction and leadership to the firm. http://www.twst.com/interview/14942

Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke Before the National Economists Club, Washington, D.C. November 21, 2002 Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here Since World War II, inflation--the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services--has been the bane of central bankers. Economists of various stripes have argued that inflation is the inevitable result of (pick your favorite) the abandonment of metallic monetary standards, a lack of fiscal discipline, shocks to the price of oil and other commodities, struggles over the distribution of income, excessive money creation, self-confirming inflation expectations, an "inflation bias" in the policies of central banks, and still others. Despite widespread "inflation pessimism," however, during the 1980s and 1990s most industrial-country central banks were able to cage, if not entirely tame, the inflation dragon. Although a number of factors converged to make this happy outcome possible...

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4779971 Company Overview of PCCP LLC Snapshot Company Overview PCCP LLC is a real estate investment firm. The firm was founded in 1998 and is based in San Francisco, California. www.paccoastcapital.com