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.
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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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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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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In 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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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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