All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
ALAN GREENSPANThe need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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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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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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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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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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