The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
ALAN GREENSPANNo one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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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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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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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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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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