Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
ALAN GREENSPANIf I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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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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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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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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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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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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The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…
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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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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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