The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
ALAN GREENSPANGold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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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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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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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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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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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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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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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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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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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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