I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
ALAN GREENSPANGold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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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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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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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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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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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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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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