I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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Some 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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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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