Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
ALAN GREENSPANHistory has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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I didn’t believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn’t prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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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
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The free lunch has still to be invented.
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