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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

Alan Greenspan

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Difficult Notorious Predict Productivity
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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Country Economy Function Harbor Violence World
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
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
If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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Area Other Price Problem Spillover
It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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Anything Deteriorate Escape Fiat Money Perceive Seem
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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Able Archive Been Clarity Emotively Future Pre Regulator Require
It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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Benefit Deregulation Hard Important Look Overemphasize True Year
There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Confiscation Deficit Hidden Safe Scheme Spend Store Value Wealth
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
I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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Anything Day Expect Must Reduce Say Talk
Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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Adequate Ago Buffer Decline Deep Home One Piece Purchase Residence Year
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
You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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Capitalist Increase Number People System Unjust
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Acknowledge Country Inconvenient Large Saddened
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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Another Commodity Counterparty Derivative Gold Often Private Restrict Supply Trade

While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.

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