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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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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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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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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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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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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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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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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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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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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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