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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.

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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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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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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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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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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.
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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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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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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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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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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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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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