And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
ALAN GREENSPAN[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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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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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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