I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
ALAN GREENSPANIn general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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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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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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Need 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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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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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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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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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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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