Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
ALAN GREENSPANIt 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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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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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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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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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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