To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
ALAN GREENSPANTo succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
ALAN GREENSPANRules cannot take the place of character.
ALAN GREENSPANIn the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
ALAN GREENSPANThe United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
ALAN GREENSPANI love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
ALAN GREENSPANThe problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
ALAN GREENSPANCrony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
ALAN GREENSPANThe arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
ALAN GREENSPANI 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.
ALAN GREENSPANThey then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
ALAN GREENSPANNo matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
ALAN GREENSPANRemember 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.
ALAN GREENSPANFear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
ALAN GREENSPANThe 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.
ALAN GREENSPANAlthough the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
ALAN GREENSPANWhatever you tax you get less of.
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