Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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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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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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