And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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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.
ALAN GREENSPANThe 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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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?
ALAN GREENSPANBut 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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Recent episodes in which Fed officials hinted at a shift toward higher interest rates have unleashed significant volatility in markets.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
ALAN GREENSPANProtectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
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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.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
ALAN GREENSPANWhen trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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The increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.
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This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
ALAN GREENSPANThis is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
ALAN GREENSPANWhat we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn’t be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
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Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud.
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