As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
ALAN GREENSPANAmerican consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
ALAN GREENSPANNeed to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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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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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 GREENSPANInstitutions 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.
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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.
ALAN GREENSPANWhile 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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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
ALAN GREENSPANGreenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
ALAN GREENSPANSenator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
ALAN GREENSPANIt’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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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…
ALAN GREENSPANThe 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 do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
ALAN GREENSPANI do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
ALAN GREENSPANThose of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
ALAN GREENSPANI am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
ALAN GREENSPANCorruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
ALAN GREENSPANWas sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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