I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
ALAN GREENSPANYet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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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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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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