Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
ALAN GREENSPANIt’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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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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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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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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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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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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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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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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