Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
ALAN GREENSPANEven 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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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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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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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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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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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 companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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