If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
ALAN GREENSPANThe arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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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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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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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.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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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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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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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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