The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
ALAN GREENSPANIf you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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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 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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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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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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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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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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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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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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