An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
ALAN GREENSPANIt’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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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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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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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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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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