“As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.” ImportantPlayPastRolesPolicyBehaviorInvestingFinancialAssetsMonetaryFinancial MarketsMonetary Policy Author:Timothy Geithner
“Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.” YearsPastThreeMy OwnFourInvestingNoiseWitnessExpertsInvestorsPersonal ExperiencesVariablesYears Past Author:Martin J. Whitman
“There will come a moment when the most urgent threats posed by the credit crisis have eased and the larger task before us will be to chart a direction for the economic steps ahead. This will be a dangerous moment. Behind the debates over future policy is a debate over history-a debate over the causes of our current situation. The battle for the past will determine the battle for the present. So it's crucial to get the history straight.” MomentsPastCausesBehindsSituationStepsEconomicDangerousPolicyBattleTasksCrisisThreatInvestingDetermineCurrentsCreditDebateCrucialUrgentCurrent Situation Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century.” CountryStatesRunningPastUnitedUnited StatesCenturyPolicyTypeRateInvestingInflationOver The PastFiscal PolicyHyperinflation Author:Laurence Kotlikoff