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’.
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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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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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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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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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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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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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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