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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.

Alan Greenspan

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
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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Another Commodity Counterparty Derivative Gold Often Private Restrict Supply Trade
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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Country Economy Function Harbor Violence World
Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Associate Credit Default Problem Serious Swap
I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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Continue Go Higher Market More Stock
Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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Episode Higher Interest Market Official Rate Recent Toward Unleash Volatility
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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Ability Correct Economy Flexible Greater Inevitable More Response Self Unanticipated
Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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Come Idea Innovative Nobody Senator Unfortunately
[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
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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Already Economic Evidence Expansion Increasingly Influence Recent Suggest Underway Well
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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Absence Confiscation God Inflation Protect Save
Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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Derivate Negotiate Privately Profession Regulation Transaction
The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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Coin Consecutive Head Investor Million Percent Pick Probably Stock Ten Tosser
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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Country Crise Current End Financial Most Retrospect Since War Wrench
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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Dominant Euphoria Fear Force Many Multiply Size
The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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Confront Expectation Frightened Lack Problem Regulation Unrealistic

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