Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
ALAN GREENSPANDeficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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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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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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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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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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