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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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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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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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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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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