The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
ALAN GREENSPANIf I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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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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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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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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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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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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