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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.

Alan Greenspan

I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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Belief Context Dramatical General Growth Institution Market Occur Risk Structure
If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Deal Effect Measure Psychology Thermometer Use
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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Anything Day Expect Must Reduce Say Talk
The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Economy Financial Generation Lack Literacy Number Problem Today
…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.
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Colleagues Critical Depend Marlet System Trust World
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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Escalate Exuberance Irrational Unduly Value
They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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Economic Freedom Gold Inseparable See Sense
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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Capitalism Cardinal Demand Integrity Interest Market Piece Trustworthy Vice Virtue
These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Day Economic Office Out Read Report
Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Far Greenspan Knew Less More Most Suppose
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Acknowledge Country Inconvenient Large Saddened
History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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History Probability Reduce Set Statics
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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Bank Better Indeed Management Necessary Only Risk Truly
American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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Country Economy Function Harbor Violence World
If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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Economic Knowledge Preeminent Remain Transform Value
The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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Already Economic Evidence Expansion Increasingly Influence Recent Suggest Underway Well

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