And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
ALAN GREENSPANThis is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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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’.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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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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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.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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