Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
ALAN GREENSPANYet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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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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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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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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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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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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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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We 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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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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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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