Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
ALAN GREENSPANThey then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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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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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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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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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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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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