Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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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Well, 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.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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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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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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