It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
ALAN GREENSPANRules cannot take the place of character.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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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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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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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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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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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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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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