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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.

Alan Greenspan

But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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Country Decade Escalate Irrational Past Subject
Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.
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Base Business Deal Fear Force Regulation Undermine
I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives.
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Appear Corner Cut Deny Manipulate Material Succeeded
I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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Detective Economy Fact Follow Love Piece Story Together
We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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Box Effect Fund Lock Make Need Phantom Real Trust
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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Caution During Especially Past Price Regard Rise Sharp Two Warranted Year
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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Elegance Feel Generation Gut Important Mathematical More Old Trader Year
The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Country Largely Oil War
We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as follows: ].
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Border Labour Open Ought Part Skill State Word World
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.
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Animosity Between Descriptive E Even Government More Out Since Street Suspect Type Wall
They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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Economic Freedom Gold Inseparable See Sense
If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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Made Mistake Probably Regard Something Understand
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Cannot Cause Far Forecast Future Go People Realize Probability
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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Bank Equity Especially Interest Mistake Organisation Presume Self Share
Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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Derivate Negotiate Privately Profession Regulation Transaction
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.
ALAN GREENSPAN

Capital Composition Force Meshed Need Oversimplification Risk Skill Stock Work

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