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The Recent Period Has Been Marked By A Transformation To An Economy That Is More Productive As Competitive Forces Become Increasingly Intense And New Technologies Raise The Efficiency Of Our Businesses...while These Tendencies Were No Doubt In Train In The "old," Pre-1990s Economy, They Accelerated Over The Past Decade As A Number Of Technologies With Their Roots In The Cumulative Innovations Of The Past Half-century Began To Yield Dramatic Economic Returns.

Skilled Shortages In America Exist Because We Are Shielding Our Skilled Labor Force From World Competition. [visa Quotas] Have Been Substituted For The Wage Pricing Mechanism. In The Process We Have Created [a] Privileged Elite Whose Incomes Are Being Supported At Non-competitively High Levels By Immigration Quotas On Skilled Professionals. Eliminating Such Restrictions Would Reduce At Least Some Of The Income Inequality.

I've Been In And Out Of Wall Street Since 1949, And I've Never Seen The Type Of Animosity Between Government And Wall Street. And I'm Not Sure Where It Comes From, But I Suspect It's Got To Do With A General Schism In This Society Which Is Really Becoming Ever More Destructive.

Now, I Only Play Very Occasionally, And In Fact, More Piano Than Clarinet Or Sax.

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.