We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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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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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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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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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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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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The 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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