A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
ALAN GREENSPANThe 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.
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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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the ‘hidden’ confiscation of wealth.
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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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Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
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I cannot conceive of a politically feasible solution to this problem which will overdo cutting the deficit, where overdoing means harming the economy. It might be technically possible, but it is not realistic.
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But rules cannot substitute for character.
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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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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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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