And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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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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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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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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