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.
ALAN GREENSPANImprovements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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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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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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