You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
ALAN GREENSPANIt 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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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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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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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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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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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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