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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

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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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Earning Exhibited Inflation Inverse Past Price Ratio Relationship See
Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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Base Business Deal Fear Force Regulation Undermine
Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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Characteristics Corruption Embezzlement Everywhere Exist Regrettably
Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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Asset Caution Consequence Debt Elevate Increase Investor Lowe Onset Premium Price Risk Value
There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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Choice Easy Gone Long No
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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Among Configuration Market Occasionally Price Priest Some Succeed
Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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Anything Country Interest Much Personal Raise Say
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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Another Commodity Counterparty Derivative Gold Often Private Restrict Supply Trade
Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Far Greenspan Knew Less More Most Suppose
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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Continue Go Higher Market More Stock
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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Aspect Bank Change Economy Ever Give Incomplete Inevitably Knowledge Outcome Particular Sometimes Structural
If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Clear Misunderstood Must Said Seen Unduly
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Buddle Call Clear Issue National Overall Pattern Pretty Unsustainable Without
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Almost Came Deficit Destabilize Chronic Realization Stark Surplus
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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Country Crise Current End Financial Most Retrospect Since War Wrench
I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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Appear Corner Cut Deny Manipulate Material Succeeded

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