Rules cannot take the place of character.
ALAN GREENSPANIt’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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