Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
ALAN GREENSPANNo one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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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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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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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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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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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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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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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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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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