All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
ALAN GREENSPANCorruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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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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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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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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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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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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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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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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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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