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

Alan Greenspan

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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Anything Day Expect Must Reduce Say Talk
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
Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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Ability Ambiguous Decision Dominate Enhance Financial Making Person Quantitative Relationship
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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Derivative Extraordinary Marketplace Over Useful Year
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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Aspect Bank Change Economy Ever Give Incomplete Inevitably Knowledge Outcome Particular Sometimes Structural
The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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Account Awesome Enough Large Made Mistake Number
Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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Gold Payment Represent Ultimate World
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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Country Decade Escalate Irrational Past Subject
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
We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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Bell Call Economy Evolve Financial International Rapid System Whistle
Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Associate Credit Default Problem Serious Swap
As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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Alternative Currency Issue Law Legal Long Tender
If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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Action Allow Freedom Terrorism Undermine
All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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Degree Drag Economic Growth Only Question Tax
We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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Border Labour Open Ought Part Skill State Word World
History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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History Probability Reduce Set Statics

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