They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
ALAN GREENSPANBefore I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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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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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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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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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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