Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
ALAN GREENSPAN[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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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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Whatever you tax you get less of.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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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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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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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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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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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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