I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
ALAN GREENSPANNo matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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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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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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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 came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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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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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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