The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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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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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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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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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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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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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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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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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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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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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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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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