I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
ALAN GREENSPANExcessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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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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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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