An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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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 need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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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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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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