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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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Box Effect Fund Lock Make Need Phantom Real Trust
It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Attention Bank Central Currency Market Problem Respect Signal
The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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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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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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Equally High Income People Drive Those Workers
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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Commodity Currency Demand God Gold Jewelry Thrust Unlike
The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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Confront Expectation Frightened Lack Problem Regulation Unrealistic
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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Escalate Exuberance Irrational Unduly Value
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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Absence Confiscation God Inflation Protect Save
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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Capital Composition Force Meshed Need Oversimplification Risk Skill Stock Work

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