There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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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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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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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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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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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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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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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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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