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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More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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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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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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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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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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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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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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