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 GREENSPANThe abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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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.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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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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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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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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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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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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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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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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