No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
ALAN GREENSPANWe can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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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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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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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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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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