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Even Though Some Down Payments Are Borrowed, It Would Take A Large, And Historically Most Unusual, Fall In Home Prices To Wipe Out A Significant Part Of Home Equity. Many Of Those Who Purchased Their Residence More Than A Year Ago Have Equity Buffers In Their Homes Adequate To Withstand Any Price Decline Other Than A Very Deep One.

We Ought To Be Opening Up Our Borders To Skilled Labour From All Parts Of The World Because [the State Of The World Is As Follows: ] If We Were To Do That We Would Increase The Supply Of Skilled Workers That Our Schools Have Been Unable To Create And As A Consequence Of That We Would Lower The Average Wage Of Skills And Reduce The Degree Of Income Inequality In This Country.

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.

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.

It Is Decidedly Not True That "nice Guys Finish Last," As That Highly Original American Baseball Philosopher, Leo Durocher, Was Alleged To Have Said.