History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
ALAN GREENSPANWhile local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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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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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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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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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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