Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
ALAN GREENSPANYou can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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