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

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

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The tub helps me relax, and it's a great place to read.

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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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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.

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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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If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.

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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets. Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.

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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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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.

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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.

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

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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.

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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

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If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

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

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