Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
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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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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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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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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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Some succeed for a time. But while there may occasionally be mis-configurations among market prices that allow abnormal returns, they do not persist.
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We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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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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