They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
ALAN GREENSPANStripped 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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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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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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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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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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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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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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