You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
ALAN GREENSPANThis is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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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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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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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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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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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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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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