If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
ALAN GREENSPANIf we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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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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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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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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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.
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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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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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