Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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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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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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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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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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