It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
ALAN GREENSPANAt 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.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The gut-feel of the 55-year old trader is more important than the mathematical elegance of the 25-year old genius.
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Senator, if I seem clear to you, you must have misunderstood me’.
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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?
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Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
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I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.
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I’m a plain soap kind of guy.
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Remember what we’re looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.
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I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.
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No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.
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