How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
ALAN GREENSPANThere are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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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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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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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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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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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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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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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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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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