Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
ALAN GREENSPANThe increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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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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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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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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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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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 only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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