Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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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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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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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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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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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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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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