The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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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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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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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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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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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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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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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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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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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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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