These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
ALAN GREENSPANThey seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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.
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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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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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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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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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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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