At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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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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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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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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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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