If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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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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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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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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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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