Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
ALAN GREENSPANWe will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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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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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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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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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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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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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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