Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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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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.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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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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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation.
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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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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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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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