Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
ALAN GREENSPANUnfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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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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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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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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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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