I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
ALAN GREENSPANPolitical decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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 only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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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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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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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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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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