Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
ALAN GREENSPANThere is no safe store of value. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom ‘lock-boxes’ around the trust fund real.
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…our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
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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 consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.
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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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It’s hard to overemphasize how important Ford’s deregulation was. True, most of the benefits took years to unfold-rail freight rates, for example hardly budged at first.
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Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
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To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education – literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
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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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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.
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The companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
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I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
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