American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
ALAN GREENSPANIn general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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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 are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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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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