It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
ALAN GREENSPANUnfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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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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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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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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