Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
ALAN GREENSPANThe use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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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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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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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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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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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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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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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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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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