American consumers might benefit if lenders provided greater mortgage product alternatives to the traditional fixed-rate mortgage.
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More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
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These days, even out of office, I still read economic reports.
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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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You can’t have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.
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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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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect.
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The recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way, although an array of influences unique to this business cycle seems likely to moderate its speed.
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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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In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
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Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices.
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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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Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s.
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And the percentage changes in wage rates would be the same for all job grades.
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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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