There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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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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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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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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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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