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

Alan Greenspan

It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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Boost Finance Free Income Increase Interest Keep Lower Productive Rate Real Saving
It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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Alleged Baseball Country Decide Finish Guy Highly Original Philosopher True
Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Gold Insidious Process Property Protector Right Stand Way
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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Aspect Bank Change Economy Ever Give Incomplete Inevitably Knowledge Outcome Particular Sometimes Structural
What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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Conceptual Del Framework Ideology People Reality
The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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Account Awesome Enough Large Made Mistake Number
Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Excessive Grow Over Own Reversal Seed Show Time
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
We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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Anything Common Crise Human Like Look Nature
If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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Economic Knowledge Preeminent Remain Transform Value
Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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Immigration Open Problem Significant Skill Solve Work
People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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Cannot Cause Far Forecast Future Go People Realize Probability
It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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Benefit Deregulation Hard Important Look Overemphasize True Year
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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Amateur Average Band Big Fade Fairy Good Musician Professional
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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Business Competitive Economy Force Mark More Period Productive Recent Technology Transformation
If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Clear Made Misspken Myself

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