If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
ALAN GREENSPANBut material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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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 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 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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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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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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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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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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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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