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
ALAN GREENSPANAs long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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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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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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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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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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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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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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