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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Alan Greenspan

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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Baseball Listen Love Music Olf Play Redskin Root Tennis
This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Aftermath History Period Premium Protract Reason Risk
History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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Demonstrate Excessive Financial History Optimism Particular Wave
Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Alternative Decision Innovative Lose Political Random
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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Boost Finance Free Income Increase Interest Keep Lower Productive Rate Real Saving
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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Competition Country Force Shied Shortage Skill
If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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Action Allow Freedom Terrorism Undermine
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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Benefit Deregulation Hard Important Look Overemphasize True Year
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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Country Crise Current End Financial Most Retrospect Since War Wrench
If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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Say Think Understand
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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Goad Growth Improve Mean Preventative Snoop Statics System
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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Confiscation Deficit Scheme Simply Spend
The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Free Invent Lunch Still
A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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Bank Decline Foreclosure Housing Level National Need Significant Substantial Trigger
I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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Detective Economy Fact Follow Love Piece Story Together
I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Better Economist Player

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