The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
ALAN GREENSPANYet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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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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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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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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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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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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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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