As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
ALAN GREENSPANI didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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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 always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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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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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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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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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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