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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

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Globalization was exerting a dis-inflationary impact.

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I really didn't get it until very late in 2005 and 2006.

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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

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We are going through a period with no precedent in American history.

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We generally did not talk about the stock market very much at the Fed.

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I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while.

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When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

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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 guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.

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[There are] signs of froth in some local markets where home prices seem to have risen to unsustainable levels.

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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.

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Modern dynamic economies do not stay still long enough to allow for an accurate reading of their underlying structures.

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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

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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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From the development of the textile loom two centuries ago to today's Internet, output per hour has increased fifty fold.

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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.

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History suggests that they [valuations] also reflect waves of optimism and pessimism that can be set off by small exogenous events.

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This modern risk-management paradigm held sway for decades. The whole intellectual edifice, however, collapsed in the summer of last year.

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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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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

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The Fabians laid the groundwork for modern social democracy, and their influence on the world would end up being at least as powerful as that of Marx.

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Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

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An area in which more rather than less government involvement is needed, in my judgment, is the rooting out of fraud. It is the bane of any market system.

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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder's equity – myself especially – are in a state of shocked disbelief.

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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.

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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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