When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
ALAN GREENSPANThe guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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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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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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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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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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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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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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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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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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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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