George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.
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The state of Michigan is in the midst of serious economic trouble, probably the worst crisis in our lifetime.
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With the confidence crisis in the U.S. markets, investors will look to more conservative stocks as prices consolidate, and Burlington Northern is one of these safer stocks.
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It seems almost as if a nuclear weapon went off in New Orleans, ... The displacement of the population is the crisis that New Orleans faces. . . . The physical and business processes of a port cannot occur in a ghost town, and right now, that is what New Orleans is.
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It opens the way to a peaceful and lasting solution to the crisis affecting this country.
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This is the most significant energy crisis in 30 years. Its going to be a particularly challenging season.
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Something really is broken in the international financial architecture, ... We're now in the 20th month of financial crisis. Yet this crisis was brewing, it was the most anticipated crisis in recent history.
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Clearly, the market has been on hold with the events in Iraq, and we're now nearing a crisis deadline. Markets love to work with a balance of certainty. After several weeks of selling, we're now looking at some value hunting.
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This crisis has the potential to be a lot worse than Lehman Brothers.
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Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.
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The global crisis is caused by pathologies inherent in the global financial system itself.
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If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.
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The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.
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Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.