We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
ALAN GREENSPANThere are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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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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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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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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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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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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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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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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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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