Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
ALAN GREENSPANThe true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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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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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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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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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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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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