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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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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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Competitively Immigration Income Level Process Profession Quota Support
There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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Cold Currency Down Gold Mine Move Question Relative Together
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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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Acknowledge Everyone Inconvenient Know Oil Political Saddened
So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Boost Different Process Rate Reason Suspect
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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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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Capitalism Condition Crony Essentially Favour Private Public
The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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Art Development Economy Habit Idea Importance Mind Skill Worker
I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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