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.
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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If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
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The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so…
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
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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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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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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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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset.
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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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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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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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