Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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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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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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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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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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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