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.
ALAN GREENSPANExcessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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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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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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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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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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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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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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