The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
ALAN GREENSPANThere is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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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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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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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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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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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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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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