There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
ALAN GREENSPANThere is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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We 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: ].
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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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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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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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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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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