Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
ALAN GREENSPANThose of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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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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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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The 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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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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