Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I’m only half joking
ALAN GREENSPANSince I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary.
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While these tendencies were no doubt in train in the “old,” pre-1990s economy, they accelerated over the past decade as a number of technologies with their roots in the cumulative innovations of the past half-century began to yield dramatic economic returns.
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Excessive optimism sows the seeds of its own reversal.
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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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It is decidedly not true that “nice guys finish last,” as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.
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Derivatives have permitted the unbundling of financial risks.
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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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Senator, we are groping for understanding, the knowledge you assume I possess doesn’t exist’.
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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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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency…and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry.
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While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.
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I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
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Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary.
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Everyone has one. You have to, to exist you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not.
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