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.
ALAN GREENSPANI guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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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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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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 made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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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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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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