You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
ALAN GREENSPANNor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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