A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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 tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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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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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
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Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that.
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Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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