The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
ALAN GREENSPANA 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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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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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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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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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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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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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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