It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
ALAN GREENSPANI came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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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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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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