In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
ALAN GREENSPANAt 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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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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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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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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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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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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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.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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