It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
ALAN GREENSPANBut 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?
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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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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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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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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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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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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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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