The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
ALAN GREENSPANThe 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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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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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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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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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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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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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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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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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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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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