[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
ALAN GREENSPANRemember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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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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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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