Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
ALAN GREENSPANIf one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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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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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 have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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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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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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