Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
ALAN GREENSPANTo 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 problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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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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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.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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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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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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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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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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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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