Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
ALAN GREENSPANIn the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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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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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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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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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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To 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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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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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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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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