Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
ALAN GREENSPANNeed 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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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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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