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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Alan Greenspan

If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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Consequence Country Degree Income Reduce Skill Supply Unable Wage Work
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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Able Archive Been Clarity Emotively Future Pre Regulator Require
I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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Anything Day Expect Must Reduce Say Talk
I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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Detective Economy Fact Follow Love Piece Story Together
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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Bank Decline Foreclosure Housing Level National Need Significant Substantial Trigger
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Acknowledge Country Inconvenient Large Saddened
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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Amateur Average Band Big Fade Fairy Good Musician Professional
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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Absence Confiscation Good Inflation Protect Saving Standard
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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Competency Experience Foundation Manipulation Mathematics Numerical Understand
Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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Commodity Currency Demand God Gold Jewelry Thrust Unlike
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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Country Crise Current End Financial Most Retrospect Since War Wrench
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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Context Mean Price Psychology Thermometer Underlying
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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Federal Reserve Initiation Market Pressure Themselves Think
Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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Amount Available Cash Necessary Problem Should Solve Stress
We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Creative Destructive Enormous Stage List Yet

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