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: ].
ALAN GREENSPANDeficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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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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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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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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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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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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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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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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