I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
ALAN GREENSPANThe arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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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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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.
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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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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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