I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
ALAN GREENSPANThe 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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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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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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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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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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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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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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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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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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