Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
ALAN GREENSPANI’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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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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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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