If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
ALAN GREENSPANNo one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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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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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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