Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
ALAN GREENSPANGold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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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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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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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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