Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
ALAN GREENSPANThe more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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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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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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I 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.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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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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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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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.
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If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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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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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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