Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
ALAN GREENSPANThe arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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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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Although 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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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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