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.
ALAN GREENSPANWhatever you tax you get less of.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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