Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
ALAN GREENSPANSignificantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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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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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 process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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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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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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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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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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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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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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