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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

Alan Greenspan

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Amateur Average Band Big Fade Fairy Good Musician Professional
It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Alleged Baseball Country Decide Finish Guy Highly Original Philosopher True
I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Absolute Believe Fact Figure Moral Otherwise Proposition
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Derivative Extraordinary Marketplace Over Useful Year
Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Against Always Any Believe Fraud Law Need Probably
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Adequate Ago Buffer Decline Deep Home One Piece Purchase Residence Year
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Another Commodity Counterparty Derivative Gold Often Private Restrict Supply Trade
The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Fail Future Investor Likely Longer Worst
The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Chosen Customer Effective Elsewhere Investor Propensity Skill Technical
It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Anything Deteriorate Escape Fiat Money Perceive Seem
People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Cannot Cause Far Forecast Future Go People Realize Probability
Rules cannot take the place of character.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Character Place Rule
Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
ALAN GREENSPAN

Anyone Barred Country President Will Required
By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Decade Development During Event Expansion Extraordinary Far Finance Most Significant
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Adherence Business Deal Gain Honest Honesty Satisfaction Strict Success
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Capitalism Cardinal Demand Integrity Interest Market Piece Trustworthy Vice Virtue

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