If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
ALAN GREENSPANGreenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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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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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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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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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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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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