We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
ALAN GREENSPANWe cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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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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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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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 companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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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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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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