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Timeless wisdom from Peter Thiel: Things could go one way, or the other

By Nicholas Carlson, 6:00 PM on Fri Mar 14 2008, 1,284 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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"What would you be in this environment?" a CNBC reporter asked Facebook invester Peter Thiel late last year. "The basic thing we think is going to happen," Thiel responds, "is either a lot of deflation ... or you're going to have a lot of inflation."

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