At 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.
ALAN GREENSPANThe companies could hire the educated workers they need. And those workers would compete with high-income people, driving more income equality.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.
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The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
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[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
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I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
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This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.
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A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage.
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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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Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.
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Rules cannot take the place of character.
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Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
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Unfortunately, Senator, nobody knows where the next innovative idea is coming from.
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