I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANI have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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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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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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