If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
ALAN GREENSPANIt signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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