If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
ALAN GREENSPANExcessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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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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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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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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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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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.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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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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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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