Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
ALAN GREENSPANThe worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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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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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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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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