Whatever you tax you get less of.
ALAN GREENSPANGold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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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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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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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 seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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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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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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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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