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 GREENSPANI came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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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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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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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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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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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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