History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
ALAN GREENSPANThe arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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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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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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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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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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