I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANI love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANWe cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
ALAN GREENSPANIt’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
ALAN GREENSPANRemember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
ALAN GREENSPANProductivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
ALAN GREENSPANWhatever you tax you get less of.
ALAN GREENSPANDerivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
ALAN GREENSPANCapitalism 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.
ALAN GREENSPANWithout calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
ALAN GREENSPANTo succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
ALAN GREENSPANThe problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
ALAN GREENSPANNo matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
ALAN GREENSPANBut rules cannot substitute for character.
ALAN GREENSPANThe free lunch has still to be invented.
ALAN GREENSPANIn general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
ALAN GREENSPANRules cannot take the place of character.
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