I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
ALAN GREENSPANSkilled 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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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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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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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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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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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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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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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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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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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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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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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