Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
ALAN GREENSPANThe abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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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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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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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 prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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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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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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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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