I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
ALAN GREENSPANIf you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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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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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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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.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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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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