I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
ALAN GREENSPANThere is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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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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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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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…
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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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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’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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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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