Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
ALAN GREENSPANIt 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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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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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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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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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.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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