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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.

Alan Greenspan

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Capitalism Condition Crony Essentially Favour Private Public
The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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Application Approach Derivative Grow More Relate Sophisticate Use
I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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Animosity Between Descriptive E Even Government More Out Since Street Suspect Type Wall
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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Central Cloud Country Number Outlook Projection Tendency Uncertain
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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Anyone Barred Country President Will Required
[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Deserve End Lose Neither Power Principle Republication Swap
Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Far Greenspan Knew Less More Most Suppose
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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Ability Ambiguous Decision Dominate Enhance Financial Making Person Quantitative Relationship
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Create Foreigner Job Little Lose Protectionism Retaliate Surely
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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Derivative Extraordinary Marketplace Over Useful Year
If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Clear Made Misspken Myself
I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Gold Governor Happen Little Market Question Raise Treasury
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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Earning Exhibited Inflation Inverse Past Price Ratio Relationship See
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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Capital Composition Force Meshed Need Oversimplification Risk Skill Stock Work
I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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Bank Equity Especially Interest Mistake Organisation Presume Self Share
It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Attention Bank Central Currency Market Problem Respect Signal

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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