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.
ALAN GREENSPANStripped 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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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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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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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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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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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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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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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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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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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Many of those who purchased their residence more than a year ago have equity buffers in their homes adequate to withstand any price decline other than a very deep one.
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