The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
ALAN GREENSPANCrony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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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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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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