Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
ALAN GREENSPANFiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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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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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 we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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