I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
ALAN GREENSPANSince I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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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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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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I 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.
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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, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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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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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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