If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.
ALAN GREENSPANI have one other issue I’d like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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There is no evidence that the business cycle has been repealed.
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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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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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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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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that’s likely to change for the better.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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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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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism.
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The Iraq War is largely about oil.
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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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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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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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When trust is lost, a nation’s ability to transact business is palpably undermined.
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