Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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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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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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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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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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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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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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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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