No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
ALAN GREENSPANWe are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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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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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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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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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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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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