Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
ALAN GREENSPANIn general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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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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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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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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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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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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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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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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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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