Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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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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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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