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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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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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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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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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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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