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.
ALAN GREENSPANGiven 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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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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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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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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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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