It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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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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I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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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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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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