They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
ALAN GREENSPANThe arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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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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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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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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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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