The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
ALAN GREENSPANImprovements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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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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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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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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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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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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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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