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

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It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

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

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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.

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It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.

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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable, and the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.

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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems. The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.

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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

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I'm a plain soap kind of guy.

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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. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.

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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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The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

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I've always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.

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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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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.

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