The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
ALAN GREENSPANWell, 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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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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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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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