We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
ALAN GREENSPANSome succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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Those 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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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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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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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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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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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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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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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