Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
ALAN GREENSPANThe increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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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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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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