Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
ALAN GREENSPANThe increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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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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