The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
ALAN GREENSPANThe United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
ALAN GREENSPANWell, 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.
ALAN GREENSPANWithout the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
ALAN GREENSPANThe companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
ALAN GREENSPANThere is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
ALAN GREENSPANI was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
ALAN GREENSPANHow do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
ALAN GREENSPANThen fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
ALAN GREENSPANDeveloping protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
ALAN GREENSPANI 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.
ALAN GREENSPANThe only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
ALAN GREENSPANMarket financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
ALAN GREENSPANThe probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
ALAN GREENSPANSuch 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.
ALAN GREENSPANEveryone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
ALAN GREENSPANAs long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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