We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
ALAN GREENSPANThe only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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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.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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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.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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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.
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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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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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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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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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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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