Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
ALAN GREENSPANAnything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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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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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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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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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 tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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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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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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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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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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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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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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