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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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Academic Government Jargon Mechanism More Nothing Scheme State Strip Support Welfare
If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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Action Allow Freedom Terrorism Undermine
If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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Group Minute Pleasantries Political Rhetoric Security Solve
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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Failure Finance Leverage Nature Significantly Unless Very
I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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Hesitate Issue Other Some Table Throw
Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Excessive Grow Over Own Reversal Seed Show Time
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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Aspect Bank Change Economy Ever Give Incomplete Inevitably Knowledge Outcome Particular Sometimes Structural
The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Country Largely Oil War
If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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Say Think Understand
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Almost Came Deficit Destabilize Chronic Realization Stark Surplus
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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Capacity Drive Enable Household Improvement Information Lead Out Practice Reach Technology Tender
Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Far Greenspan Knew Less More Most Suppose
No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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Eliminate No One Stuff
The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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Content Inbred Need Value
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Almost Antagonism Gold Issue Persuasion Standard Towards Unite
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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