Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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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 can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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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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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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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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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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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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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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