[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
ALAN GREENSPANDeficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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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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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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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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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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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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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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