I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
ALAN GREENSPANThe only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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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.
ALAN GREENSPANThe 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 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.
ALAN GREENSPANI 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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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
ALAN GREENSPANThe need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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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.
ALAN GREENSPANI’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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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
ALAN GREENSPANSince I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
ALAN GREENSPANThis is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
ALAN GREENSPANWhile local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
ALAN GREENSPANAnd whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
ALAN GREENSPANCash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
ALAN GREENSPANThere is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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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.
ALAN GREENSPANThe 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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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
ALAN GREENSPANCapitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
ALAN GREENSPANProductivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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