Enhances a person’s ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making
ALAN GREENSPANAlthough the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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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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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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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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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of our ever-changing economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central bank.
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Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
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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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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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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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