The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
ALAN GREENSPANRemember 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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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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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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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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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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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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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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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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