We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
ALAN GREENSPANI’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit.
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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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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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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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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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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