Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
ALAN GREENSPANSenator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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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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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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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 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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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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