Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
ALAN GREENSPANFear 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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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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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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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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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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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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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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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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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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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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