History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
ALAN GREENSPANSenator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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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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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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