Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
ALAN GREENSPANRegulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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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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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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