In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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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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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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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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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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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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