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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.

Alan Greenspan

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
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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Boost Finance Free Income Increase Interest Keep Lower Productive Rate Real Saving
I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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Absolute Believe Fact Figure Moral Otherwise Proposition
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
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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Accordingly Before Logical Met People Positivist
We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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Anything Common Crise Human Like Look Nature
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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Corruption Exist Extend Favor General Government Sell Something
The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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Application Approach Derivative Grow More Relate Sophisticate Use
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
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
While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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Distortion Economy Experience Imbalance Local National Price Seem Severe Significant
The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Better Change Come Credit Difficult Economy Extend Find Firm Lag Need Number Small Turn
The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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Account Awesome Enough Large Made Mistake Number
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Aftermath Dealt History Period Premium Protracted Risk
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
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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Dominant Euphoria Fear Force Many Multiply Size

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