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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.

Alan Greenspan

If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Clear Misunderstood Must Said Seen Unduly
Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Alternative Decision Innovative Lose Political Random
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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Bitcoin Blue Bubble Imagination Intrinsic Really Stretch
Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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Ability Ambiguous Decision Dominate Enhance Financial Making Person Quantitative Relationship
Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Equity Financial Home Market Recent Withdrawl Year
I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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Animosity Between Descriptive E Even Government More Out Since Street Suspect Type Wall
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.
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Country Crise Current End Financial Most Retrospect Since War Wrench
Whatever you tax you get less of.
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Economy Less Tax
American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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Alternative Belief Consumer Country Great Lender might Mortgage Product Provide Traditional
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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Goad Growth Improve Mean Preventative Snoop Statics System
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Able Content Leave Measure Own Succeeded True
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Create Government Guild Prevent Purpose Rather Regulation Something
We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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Bell Call Economy Evolve Financial International Rapid System Whistle
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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Economic Knowledge Preeminent Remain Transform Value
If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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Cold Currency Down Gold Mine Move Question Relative Together
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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Caution During Especially Past Price Regard Rise Sharp Two Warranted Year

Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.

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