It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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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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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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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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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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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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