The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
ALAN GREENSPANNow, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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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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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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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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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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