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: ].
ALAN GREENSPANDeficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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The 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.
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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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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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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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