Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
ALAN GREENSPANWas sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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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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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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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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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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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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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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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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