Any Informed Borrower Is Simply Less Vulnerable

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.

Corruption, Embezzlement, Fraud, These Are All Characteristics Which Exist Everywhere. It Is Regrettably The Way Human Nature Functions, Whether We Like It Or Not. What Successful Economies Do Is Keep It To A Minimum. No One Has Ever Eliminated Any Of That Stuff.

The More Flexible An Economy, The Greater Its Ability To Self-correct In Response To Inevitable, Often Unanticipated, Disturbances And Thus To Contain The Size And Consequences Of Cyclical Imbalances.

Senator, We Are Groping For Understanding, The Knowledge You Assume I Possess Doesn't Exist' - 'the Only Effective Regulation Lies In The Propensity Of Customers To Choose Alternatives, Of Investors To Move Their Funds Elsewhere And Of Labour To Acquire Technical Skills' - 'senator, If I Seem Clear To You, You Must Have Misunderstood Me' - 'unfortunately, Senator, Nobody Knows Where The Next Innovative Idea Is Coming From. Political Decisions Are Never Random And Will Always Lose Out To Innovative Alternatives

I Don't Know Where The Stock Market Is Going, But I Will Say This, That If It Continues Higher, This Will Do More To Stimulate The Economy Than Anything We've Been Talking About Today Or Anything Anybody Else Was Talking About.