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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

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Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

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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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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, 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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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

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

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The Iraq War is largely about oil.

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I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

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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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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.

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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.

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

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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.

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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.

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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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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

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