I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
ALAN GREENSPANThe true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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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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It’s not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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