Whatever you tax you get less of.
ALAN GREENSPANHistory cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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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 has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations.
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But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?
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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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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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Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
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They then need to reach a judgment about the probabilities, costs, and benefits of the various possible outcomes under alternative choices for policy.
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What an ideology is is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality.
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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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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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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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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it’s pretty clear that it’s an unsustainable underlying pattern.
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