Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
ALAN GREENSPANWe ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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A 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.
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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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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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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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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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