“ 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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“ Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs. ”
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“ There appears to be enough evidence, at least tentatively, to conclude that our strategy of addressing the bubble's consequences rather than the bubble itself has been successful. ”
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“ The bottom line, however, is that, while immigration and imports can significantly cushion the consequences of the wealth effect and its draining pool of unemployed workers for awhile, there are limits. ”
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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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“ It seems persuasive that, given the size of the U.S. current account deficit, a diminished appetite for adding to dollar balances must occur at some point. ”
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“ It seems persuasive that, given the size of the U.S. current account deficit, a diminished appetite for adding to dollar balances must occur at some point. ”
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“ Ned says he is leaving the board to return to teaching, but I must point out that, in a sense, he never left teaching,... He has been instructing us all along, and we at the board have been his willing students. ”
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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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“ The effects of the present merger wave are yet to be determined,... But, unless a relationship between bigness and market concentration can be more firmly rooted in anti-competitive behavior, bigness, per se, does not appear to be an issue for national economic policy. ”
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“ The physical assets of such a firm comprise a small proportion of its asset base,... Trust and reputation can vanish overnight. A factory cannot. ”
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“ I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while. ”
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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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“ 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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“ There appears to be enough evidence, at least tentatively, to conclude that our strategy of addressing the bubble's consequences rather than the bubble itself has been successful. ”
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“ We should not be cutting taxes by borrowing,... We should be cutting taxes by reducing the level of spending and that's an issue that I think is critically on the table. ”
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“ I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. ”
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“ We should not be cutting taxes by borrowing,... We should be cutting taxes by reducing the level of spending and that's an issue that I think is critically on the table. ”
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“ As I see it, heightened job insecurity... explains a significant part of the restraint on (wages), and the consequent muted price inflation,... Surveys of workers have highlighted this extraordinary state of affairs. ”
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“ What it suggests is that, if you smooth through the noise in the data, we are getting increasing confirmation that something fundamentally important did happen in the latter half of the 1990s, and it gives us some confidence looking into the future. ”
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“ Issuance of equity and of bonds by lower-rated corporations has come virtually to a halt — even investment-grade companies have cut back substantially on their borrowings. ”
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“ I am honored to be nominated by President Bush and, if confirmed by the Senate, to continue my service as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. ”
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“ The complexity of our economy is such, and the way liquidity flows through the system is such, that you essentially get very complex differences in the way monetary policy plays out,... But, at the end of the day, it does seem to be effective. ”
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“ Indeed, our goal, in responding to the complexity of current economic forces, is to extend the expansion by containing imbalances and avoiding the very recession that would complete a business cycle. ”
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“ The effects of the present merger wave are yet to be determined,... But, unless a relationship between bigness and market concentration can be more firmly rooted in anti-competitive behavior, bigness, per se, does not appear to be an issue for national economic policy. ”
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“ Before the crisis broke, there was little reason to question the three decades of phenomenally solid East Asian economic growth, largely financed through the banking system, so long as the rapidly expanding economies and bank credit kept the ratio of non-performing loans to total bank assets low. ”
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“ The very few times which we have intervened have occurred,... when we believe the markets are unstable and that intervention might have an impact. ”
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“ What is not clear is whether the market values that are being placed on particular assets involved in this technology revolution are appropriately priced. ”
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“ The complexity of our economy is such, and the way liquidity flows through the system is such, that you essentially get very complex differences in the way monetary policy plays out,... But, at the end of the day, it does seem to be effective. ”
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