History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
ALAN GREENSPANBut rules cannot substitute for character.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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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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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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