I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
ALAN GREENSPANWhile 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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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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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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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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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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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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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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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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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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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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