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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

Alan Greenspan

I’ve been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I’ve never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I’m not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it’s got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Animosity Between Descriptive E Even Government More Out Since Street Suspect Type Wall
There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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Choice Easy Gone Long No
Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Gold Payment Represent Ultimate World
Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Create Foreigner Job Little Lose Protectionism Retaliate Surely
There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
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Arbitrary Death Guarantee Inspector Integrity Judgement Knowledge Nothing Superior
I believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.
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Belief Context Dramatical General Growth Institution Market Occur Risk Structure
Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Difficult Notorious Predict Productivity
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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Being Central Century Government Midst Once REquired Tsunami
Was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
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Apart Contagion Critical Fall Intellectual Phenomenon Shock Sort
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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Better Built Decade Example Financial Market Mousetrap People
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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Anything Deteriorate Escape Fiat Money Perceive Seem
Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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Excessive Grow Over Own Reversal Seed Show Time
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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Failure Finance Leverage Nature Significantly Unless Very
The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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Business Competitive Economy Force Mark More Period Productive Recent Technology Transformation
At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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Capital Composition Force Meshed Need Oversimplification Risk Skill Stock Work
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

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