Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
ALAN GREENSPANWe cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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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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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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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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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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