I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANHistory 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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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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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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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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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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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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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