It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
ALAN GREENSPANI have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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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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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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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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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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