Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
ALAN GREENSPANDeficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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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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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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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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