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 GREENSPANThe problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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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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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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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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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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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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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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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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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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