I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
ALAN GREENSPANRecent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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