I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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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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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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Political decisions are never random and will always lose out to innovative alternatives.
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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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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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