Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
ALAN GREENSPANThere is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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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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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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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 United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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