Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade.
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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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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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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
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And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.
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I’ve always argued that this country has benefited immensely from the fact that we draw people from all over the world.
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The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.
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Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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Need to consider not only the most likely future path for the economy but also the distribution of possible outcomes about that path.
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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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