Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
ALAN GREENSPANHistory has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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