If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
ALAN GREENSPANHistory demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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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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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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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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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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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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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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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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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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