No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
ALAN GREENSPANCorruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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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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