I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANHistory cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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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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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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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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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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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