Speaking As Somebody Who Has Been Happily

Over The Years, The U.s. Economy Has Shown A Remarkable Ability To Absorb Shocks Of All Kinds, To Recover, And To Continue To Grow. Flexible And Efficient Markets For Labor And Capital, An Entrepreneurial Tradition, And A General Willingness To Tolerate And Even Embrace Technological And Economic Change All Contribute To This Resiliency.

If Wall Street Crashes, Does Main Street Follow? Not Necessarily.

A Meritocracy Is A System In Which The People Who Are The Luckiest In Their Health And Genetic Endowment; Luckiest In Terms Of Family Support, Encouragement And, Probably, Income; Luckiest In Their Educational And Career Opportunities; And Luckiest In So Many Other Ways Difficult To Enumerate - These Are The Folks Who Reap The Largest Rewards.

I Don't See Much Evidence Of An Equity Bubble.

The More Guidance A Central Bank Can Provide The Public About How Policy Is Likely To Evolve The Greater The Chance That Market Participants Will Make Appropriate Inferences.