I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
ALAN GREENSPANWe can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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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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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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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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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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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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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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