Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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 need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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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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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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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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Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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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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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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