Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
ALAN GREENSPANAlthough 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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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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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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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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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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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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