An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
ALAN GREENSPANMany of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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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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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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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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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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