Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
ALAN GREENSPANI was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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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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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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