The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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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’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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