So there is no reason to suspect that the actual process of boosting rates would be any different.
ALAN GREENSPANWhile local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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 don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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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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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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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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Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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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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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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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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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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