And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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If I’ve made myself clear, I’ve misspoken.
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Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them.
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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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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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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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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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There is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
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Significantly opening up immigration to skilled workers solves two problems.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.
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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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It’s a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
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