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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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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Difficult Notorious Predict Productivity
If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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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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What 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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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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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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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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