I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
ALAN GREENSPANIf all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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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 gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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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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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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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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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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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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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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