American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
ALAN GREENSPANThe number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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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.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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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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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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