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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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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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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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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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