Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
ALAN GREENSPANRegulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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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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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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