Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
ALAN GREENSPANRevolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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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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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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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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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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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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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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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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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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