So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
ALAN GREENSPANRegulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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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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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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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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