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.
ALAN GREENSPANThey then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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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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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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