And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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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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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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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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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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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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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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