You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
ALAN GREENSPANI have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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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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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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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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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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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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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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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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