Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
ALAN GREENSPANWe will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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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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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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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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