Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
ALAN GREENSPANAnyone 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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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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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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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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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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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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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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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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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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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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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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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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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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