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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.

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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Better Economist Player
I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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Eliminate No One Stuff
Rules cannot take the place of character.
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Character Place Rule
If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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Area Other Price Problem Spillover
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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Group Minute Pleasantries Political Rhetoric Security Solve
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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Create Foreigner Job Little Lose Protectionism Retaliate Surely
The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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Chosen Customer Effective Elsewhere Investor Propensity Skill Technical
Even though some down payments are borrowed, it would take a large, and historically most unusual, fall in home prices to wipe out a significant part of home equity.
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Borrow Down Equity Historical Payment Significant Some Unusual Wipe
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Almost Antagonism Gold Issue Persuasion Standard Towards Unite
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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Failure Finance Leverage Nature Significantly Unless Very
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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Consequence Country Degree Income Reduce Skill Supply Unable Wage Work
I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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Deny Monoply Nature Need Readily Resolve Terrible Thing

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