I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
ALAN GREENSPANWe will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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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.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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