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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.

Alan Greenspan

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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Competition Country Force Shied Shortage Skill
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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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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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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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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