I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
ALAN GREENSPANIf prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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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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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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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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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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