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.
ALAN GREENSPANThe companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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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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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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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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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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