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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Alan Greenspan

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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Bank Equity Especially Interest Mistake Organisation Presume Self Share
If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Deal Effect Measure Psychology Thermometer Use
These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Day Economic Office Out Read Report
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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Adequate Ago Buffer Decline Deep Home One Piece Purchase Residence Year
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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Capitalism Cardinal Demand Integrity Interest Market Piece Trustworthy Vice Virtue
All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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Degree Drag Economic Growth Only Question Tax
It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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Benefit Deregulation Hard Important Look Overemphasize True Year
Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Abuse Borrower Fraud Inform Less Simply Vulnerable
Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Gold Insidious Process Property Protector Right Stand Way
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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Animosity Between Descriptive E Even Government More Out Since Street Suspect Type Wall
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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Accelerate Circumstance Dramatic Economic Innovation Offer Return Tendency Train
Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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Alternative Decision Innovative Lose Political Random
It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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Goad Growth Improve Mean Preventative Snoop Statics System
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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Competition Country Force Shied Shortage Skill
There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Confiscation Deficit Hidden Safe Scheme Spend Store Value Wealth
The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Free Invent Lunch Still

I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

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