If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
ALAN GREENSPANClearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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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.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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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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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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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 arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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