All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
ALAN GREENSPANBut 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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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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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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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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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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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.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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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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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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