If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
ALAN GREENSPANThe recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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