Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
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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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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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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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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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