But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
ALAN GREENSPANGreenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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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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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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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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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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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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