The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
ALAN GREENSPANYou can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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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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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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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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