I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
ALAN GREENSPAN[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It’s only a question of degree.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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If we were to do that we would increase the supply of skilled workers that our schools have been unable to create and as a consequence of that we would lower the average wage of skills and reduce the degree of income inequality in this country.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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