The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
ALAN GREENSPANDeficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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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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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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