If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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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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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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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 number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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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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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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