What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
ALAN GREENSPAN…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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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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