Regulation Of Derivatives Transactions That Are Privately

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.

Look, I'm Very Much In Favor Of Tax Cuts, But Not With Borrowed Money. And The Problem That We've Gotten Into In Recent Years Is Spending Programs With Borrowed Money, Tax Cuts With Borrowed Money, And At The End Of The Day That Proves Disastrous. And My View Is I Don't Think We Can Play Subtle Policy Here.

Given Our Inevitably Incomplete Knowledge About Key Structural Aspects Of Our Ever-changing Economy And The Sometimes Asymmetric Costs Or Benefits Of Particular Outcomes, A Central Bank... Need To Consider Not Only The Most Likely Future Path For The Economy But Also The Distribution Of Possible Outcomes About That Path. They Then Need To Reach A Judgment About The Probabilities, Costs, And Benefits Of The Various Possible Outcomes Under Alternative Choices For Policy.

The Economy Is Turning, And Credit Comes In With A Lag, .. To The Extent That A Number Of Small Firms Are Finding It Difficult To Get The Credit They Need At A Price They Can Afford, That's Likely To Change For The Better.

Deficit Spending Is Simply A Scheme For The 'hidden' Confiscation Of Wealth. Gold Stands In The Way Of This Insidious Process. It Stands As A Protector Of Property Rights.