I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
ALAN GREENSPANThe recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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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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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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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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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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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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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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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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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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