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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Alan Greenspan

It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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Benefit Deregulation Hard Important Look Overemphasize True Year
Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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Base Business Deal Fear Force Regulation Undermine
Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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Commodity Currency Demand God Gold Jewelry Thrust Unlike
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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Basic Communication Education Foundation Importance Learn Solid Soon Succeed
The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Fail Future Investor Likely Longer Worst
These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Day Economic Office Out Read Report
If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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Economic Knowledge Preeminent Remain Transform Value
Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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Consensus Cut Fiscal Irresponsible Policy Tax Trigger View
I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Gold Governor Happen Little Market Question Raise Treasury
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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Chosen Customer Effective Elsewhere Investor Propensity Skill Technical
If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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Area Other Price Problem Spillover
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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Accordingly Before Logical Met People Positivist
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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Amateur Average Band Big Fade Fairy Good Musician Professional
But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Character Rule Substitute
If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Deal Effect Measure Psychology Thermometer Use
So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Boost Different Process Rate Reason Suspect

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