Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets.
ALAN GREENSPANSince I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
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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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Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders’ equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
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I’m not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.
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The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.
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And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
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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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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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Without the triggers, that tax cut is irreponsible fiscal policy. Eventually, I think that will be the consensus view.
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Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices.
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The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged… and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
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Now, I only play very occasionally, and in fact, more piano than clarinet or sax.
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The only effective regulation lies in the propensity of customers to choose alternatives, of investors to move their funds elsewhere and of labour to acquire technical skills’.
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Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
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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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