I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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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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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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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.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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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.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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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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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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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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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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