Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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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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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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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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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.
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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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