Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
ALAN GREENSPANCrony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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Cash is available and we should use that in larger amounts, as is necessary, to solve the problems of the stress of this.
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The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the Second World War.
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I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.
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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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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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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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It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.
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Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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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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The tub helps me relax, and it’s a great place to read.
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