Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
ALAN GREENSPANBut material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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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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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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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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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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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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