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 GREENSPANSuch caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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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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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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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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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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