The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
ALAN GREENSPANThe gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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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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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 guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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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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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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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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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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