The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
ALAN GREENSPANThe United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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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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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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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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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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