Institutions of the newer participants in global finance had not been tested, until recently…recent crisis have underscored certain financial structure vulnerabilities that are not readily assuaged in the short run.
ALAN GREENSPANWithout calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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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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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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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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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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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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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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The recent period has been marked by a transformation to an economy that is more productive as competitive forces become increasingly intense and new technologies raise the efficiency of our businesses…
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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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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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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