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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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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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All Change Job Percentage Rate Right Same Wage
They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Alternative Benefit Choice Judgement Policy Probability
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
The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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Formation House Household Increase New Only Sustainable
There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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Choice Easy Gone Long No
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
Rules cannot take the place of character.
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Character Place Rule
Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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Adequate Ago Buffer Decline Deep Home One Piece Purchase Residence Year
We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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Necessary Out Policy Preëmptive Rule Situation Tight
I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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Baseball Listen Love Music Olf Play Redskin Root Tennis
Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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Base Business Deal Fear Force Regulation Undermine
Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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Among Configuration Market Occasionally Price Priest Some Succeed
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Create Foreigner Job Little Lose Protectionism Retaliate Surely
We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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Asset Banker Bubble Central Collapse Concern Do Economy Financial Threaten
No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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Eliminate No One Stuff
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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Ability Correct Economy Flexible Greater Inevitable More Response Self Unanticipated

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