Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
ALAN GREENSPANYet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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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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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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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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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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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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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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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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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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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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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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