Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
ALAN GREENSPANNo matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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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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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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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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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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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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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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