The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
ALAN GREENSPANWhat 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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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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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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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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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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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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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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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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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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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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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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