I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANIt’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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