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.
ALAN GREENSPANThere is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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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 free lunch has still to be invented.
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If you think you understand what I am saying you do not understand what I am saying.
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People dont realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but thats as far as we go. And Ive had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward.
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It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.
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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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If prices go down, we will have problems – problems in the sense of spillover to other areas.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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