These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
ALAN GREENSPANIn general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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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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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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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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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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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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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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