Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
ALAN GREENSPANIt keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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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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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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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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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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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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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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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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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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