I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
ALAN GREENSPANWe cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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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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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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