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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

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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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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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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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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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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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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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