Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
ALAN GREENSPANIf I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
ALAN GREENSPANAmateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
ALAN GREENSPANIf we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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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.
ALAN GREENSPANThe 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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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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
ALAN GREENSPANWas sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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The 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.
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.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
ALAN GREENSPANEveryone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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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.
ALAN GREENSPANInstitutions 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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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
ALAN GREENSPANPeople dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
ALAN GREENSPANIndeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
ALAN GREENSPANWhen trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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