The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
ALAN GREENSPANI 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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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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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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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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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I have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
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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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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.
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