Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
ALAN GREENSPANClearly, 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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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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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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…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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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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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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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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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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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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