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.
ALAN GREENSPANThe 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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Even 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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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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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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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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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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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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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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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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