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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Alan Greenspan

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Content Inbred Need Value
The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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Better Change Come Credit Difficult Economy Extend Find Firm Lag Need Number Small Turn
Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Consensus Cut Fiscal Irresponsible Policy Tax Trigger View
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Confiscation Deficit Scheme Simply Spend
Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
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Ability Ambiguous Decision Dominate Enhance Financial Making Person Quantitative Relationship
I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Almost Came Deficit Destabilize Chronic Realization Stark Surplus
The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants, who tend to earn enough to buy homes, would accomplish that while paying other dividends to the U.S. economy.
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Formation House Household Increase New Only Sustainable
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Absence Confiscation Good Inflation Protect Saving Standard
If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America’s system of higher education must remain the world’s leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.
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Economic Knowledge Preeminent Remain Transform Value
All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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Degree Drag Economic Growth Only Question Tax
I think that real pressure is going to occur not by the initiation by the Federal Reserve, but by the markets themselves.
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Federal Reserve Initiation Market Pressure Themselves Think
The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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Account Awesome Enough Large Made Mistake Number
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Deny Monoply Nature Need Readily Resolve Terrible Thing
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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Acknowledge Everyone Inconvenient Know Oil Political Saddened
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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Absence Confiscation God Inflation Protect Save
We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Benefit Cash Guarantee Like Power Purchase

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