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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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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

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We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

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...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I'm running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can't reduce (the debt) any more

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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.

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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently...recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.

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Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

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

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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

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

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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

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

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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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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

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

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Rules cannot take the place of character.

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

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