What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
ALAN GREENSPANIt has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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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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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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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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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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