Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
ALAN GREENSPANBefore I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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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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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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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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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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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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