If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
ALAN GREENSPANMarket financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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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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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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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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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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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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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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