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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,

Alan Greenspan

The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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Art Development Economy Habit Idea Importance Mind Skill Worker
While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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Accelerate Circumstance Dramatic Economic Innovation Offer Return Tendency Train
Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Creative Destructive Enormous Stage List Yet
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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Goad Growth Improve Mean Preventative Snoop Statics System
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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Distortion Economy Experience Imbalance Local National Price Seem Severe Significant
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Confiscation Deficit Scheme Simply Spend
It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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Function Human Keep Minimum Nature Regrettably Successful
You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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Capitalist Increase Number People System Unjust
I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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Bank Equity Especially Interest Mistake Organisation Presume Self Share
It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Bitcoin Blue Bubble Imagination Intrinsic Really Stretch
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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Amateur Average Business Country Enroll Good Limit Professional Realize Soon
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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Absence Confiscation Good Inflation Protect Saving Standard
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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Already Economic Evidence Expansion Increasingly Influence Recent Suggest Underway Well
We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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Asset Banker Bubble Central Collapse Concern Do Economy Financial Threaten
When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Ability Business Loss Nation Palpably Transact Trust Undermined
The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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Formation House Household Increase New Only Sustainable

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