Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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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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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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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, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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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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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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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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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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