There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
ALAN GREENSPANIf I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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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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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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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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