These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
ALAN GREENSPANRevolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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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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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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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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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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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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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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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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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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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