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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.

Alan Greenspan

The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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Coin Consecutive Head Investor Million Percent Pick Probably Stock Ten Tosser
If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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Group Minute Pleasantries Political Rhetoric Security Solve
Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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Crisis Finance Global Institution Neve Participant Recent Run Short Test Underscore Until
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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Capital Composition Force Meshed Need Oversimplification Risk Skill Stock Work
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Almost Antagonism Gold Issue Persuasion Standard Towards Unite
I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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All Always Argue Benefited Country Draw Fact Immensely Over People World
There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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Arbitrary Death Guarantee Inspector Integrity Judgement Knowledge Nothing Superior
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
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
The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Create Government Guild Prevent Purpose Rather Regulation Something
We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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Benefit Cash Guarantee Like Power Purchase
People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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Cannot Cause Far Forecast Future Go People Realize Probability
No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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Abnormal Exposure Haul Long Matter No Return Scheme Skillful Sustain Trade
We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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Anything Common Crise Human Like Look Nature
Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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Anyone Barred Country President Will Required
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

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