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.
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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The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world.
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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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I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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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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