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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

Alan Greenspan

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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Retrospect Revolution See Something
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
We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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Necessary Out Policy Preëmptive Rule Situation Tight
The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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Application Approach Derivative Grow More Relate Sophisticate Use
No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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Abnormal Exposure Haul Long Matter No Return Scheme Skillful Sustain Trade
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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Anyone Barred Country President Will Required
I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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Continue Go Higher Market More Stock
[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Deserve End Lose Neither Power Principle Republication Swap
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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Country Decade Escalate Irrational Past Subject
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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Against Always Any Believe Fraud Law Need Probably
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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Confront Expectation Frightened Lack Problem Regulation Unrealistic
We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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Asset Banker Bubble Central Collapse Concern Do Economy Financial Threaten
It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Bitcoin Blue Bubble Imagination Intrinsic Really Stretch
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Able Content Leave Measure Own Succeeded True
All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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Degree Drag Economic Growth Only Question Tax
Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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