If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
ALAN GREENSPANTo succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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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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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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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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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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I 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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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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