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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.

Alan Greenspan

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Able Content Leave Measure Own Succeeded True
The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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Course Ending Innovation never Process
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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Economic Knowledge Preeminent Remain Transform Value
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Confiscation Deficit Scheme Simply Spend
It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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Benefit Deregulation Hard Important Look Overemphasize True Year
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Confiscation Deficit Hide Scheme Simply Spend Wealth
I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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Hesitate Issue Other Some Table Throw
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
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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Alternative Benefit Choice Judgement Policy Probability
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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Capitalism Cardinal Demand Integrity Interest Market Piece Trustworthy Vice Virtue
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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Central Cloud Country Number Outlook Projection Tendency Uncertain
Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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Caution During Especially Past Price Regard Rise Sharp Two Warranted Year
I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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Continue Go Higher Market More Stock
We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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Asset Banker Bubble Central Collapse Concern Do Economy Financial Threaten
Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Assume Grop Knowledge Possess Exist Senator Understand
By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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Decade Development During Event Expansion Extraordinary Far Finance Most Significant

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