If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
ALAN GREENSPANThe process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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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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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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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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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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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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