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.
ALAN GREENSPANGreenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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