To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
ALAN GREENSPANDerivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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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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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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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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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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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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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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There’s an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.
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