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Alan Greenspan

It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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Boost Finance Free Income Increase Interest Keep Lower Productive Rate Real Saving
I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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Detective Economy Fact Follow Love Piece Story Together
You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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Capitalist Increase Number People System Unjust
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Acknowledge Everyone Inconvenient Know Oil Political Saddened
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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Base Business Deal Fear Force Regulation Undermine
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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Adequate Ago Buffer Decline Deep Home One Piece Purchase Residence Year
Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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Derivative Financial Permit Risk Unbound
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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Country Economy Function Harbor Violence World
These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Day Economic Office Out Read Report
The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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Course Ending Innovation never Process
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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Capitalism Cardinal Demand Integrity Interest Market Piece Trustworthy Vice Virtue
I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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Cannot Conceive Cut Deficit Economy Harm Overdo Overdue Political Realistic Solution
Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Accept Extremis Fiat God Money Nobody
If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Clear Made Misspken Myself
It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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Function Human Keep Minimum Nature Regrettably Successful
I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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Anything Day Expect Must Reduce Say Talk

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