Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
ALAN GREENSPANGold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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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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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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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 arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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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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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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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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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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