The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
ALAN GREENSPANEveryone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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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 process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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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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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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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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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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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 probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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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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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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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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