But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
ALAN GREENSPANThere is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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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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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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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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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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