And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
ALAN GREENSPANExcessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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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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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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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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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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