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I'm a plain soap kind of guy.

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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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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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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

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

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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.

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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

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I'm a better economist than I was a sax player.

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

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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.

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

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

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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.

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You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices, ... This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

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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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