The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
ALAN GREENSPANThe use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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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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I’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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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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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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