I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reducing the debt, I’m running into the tyranny of zero, which is where you can’t reduce (the debt) any more
ALAN GREENSPANDerivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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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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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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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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