The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
ALAN GREENSPANA decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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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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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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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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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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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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