Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
ALAN GREENSPANNo one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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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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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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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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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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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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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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